Frances Miller Mumaugh

Frances Miller Mumaugh (July 11, 1860 – 1933) was an American still-life painter. She exhibited an oil, A Dreamer, at the World's Congress of Representative Women of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893;^[1] and was also an exhibitor at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904.^[2]

Frances Miller Mumaugh, "A woman of the century"

Early years and education

Frances Miller was born in Newark, New York, July 11, 1860.^{[3][lower-alpha 1]} She was a descendant of an old Lutheran family from Saxony. Her childhood was passed in the Genesee Valley. When a mere child, her artistic faculty attracted the attention of her teachers. She was educated in the public schools, but without instruction in her special line, in which she continued to show development.^[3]

Career

In 1879, she married John E. Mumaugh, of Omaha, Nebraska, where they afterward resided. She was soon identified with western art and artists. ^[3] Broad in her ideas, she was not a follower of any particular school, and sought for herself nature's inspirations. Thrown on her own resources in 1885, with a two-year-old daughter to care for, worked diligently to be a recognized western artists. With the exception of a course of study in water-color under Jules Guérin, of Chicago, a summer course in oil with Dwight Frederick Boyden, of Paris, as well as a course with William Merritt Chase,^[4] her progress was due almost entirely to her own efforts. She delighted in landscapes, in which line she was always successful.^[3] She also designed holiday cards and gift tags for large firms, finding a big demand for them.^[5]

Mumaugh kept a studio in Omaha's Paxton block.^[6] As a teacher, her classes were always full. She conducted the art department in Long Pine Chautauqua for four years, and one season in Fremont, Nebraska. She served on the board of directors of the Western Art Association since its organization, in 1888. ^[3]

Mumaugh died in 1933.^[7]

Gallery

Mumaugh's Christmas card designs (1920)

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Mumaugh's Christmas gift tag designs (1920)

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Notes

1. Bucklin gives birth date of July 11, 1859.^[2]

References

1. W. B. Conkey Company 1893, p. 1061.
2. Bucklin 1932, p. 43.
3. Willard & Livermore 1893, p. 528.
4. Gerdts 1991, p. 74.
5. Saturday Evening Post Company 1920, p. 121.
6. Katz 2018, p. 74.
7. "Museum of Nebraska Art". University of Nebraska at Kearney. Retrieved 3 March 2018.

Attribution

• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Saturday Evening Post Company (1920). Design. Vol. 22 (Public domain ed.). Saturday Evening Post Company.
• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: W. B. Conkey Company (1893). The Official Directory of the World's Columbian Exposition, May 1st to October 30th, 1893: A Reference Book of Exhibitors and Exhibits, and of the Officers and Members of the World's Columbian Commission (Public domain ed.). W. B. Conkey Company.
• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Moulton. p. 528.

Bibliography

• Bucklin, Clarissa (1932). Nebraska Art and Artists. School of Fine Arts, The University of Nebraska.
• Gerdts, William H. (1 January 1991). Art across America: two centuries of regional painting, 1710-1920. Abbeville Press. ISBN 978-1-55859-033-5.
• Katz, Wendy Jean (2018). The Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898-1899: Art, Anthropology, and Popular Culture at the Fin de Siècle. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-1-4962-0436-3.