Bessie Marsh Brewer
Bessie Marsh Brewer (1884–1952) was a Canadian-American printmaker, painter, sculptor and teacher. She studied at the New York School of Applied Design for Women and at the Art Students League with Robert Henri and John Sloan.[1] She illustrated for Century, Phoenix, Collier's, and St. Nicholas magazines.[2][3] She exhibited at the 1913 New York Armory Show where she showed three drawings, The Furnished Room, Curiosity and Putting Her Monday Name on Her Letterbox.[4] Amongst the aforementioned skills, Bessie Marsh Brewer created in the styles of Realism, Representation, and Naturalism.[5] She was the mother of Sam Pope Brewer, New York Times correspondent whose wife later remarried to Kim Philby.[6] AwardsNew York School of Applied Design for Women in commercial art (1922).[2] See alsoList of artists in the Armory Show References
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