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Lee Lufkin Kaula (1865–1957) was an American Impressionist painter known for her portraits.
Biography
Kaula née Lufkin was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, on December 23, 1865. She was taught by Charles Melville Dewey and then traveled to France to study at the Academie Colarossi in Paris. Her teachers in France included Edmond Aman-Jean, Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois, and Ernest Gustave Girardot.
While in France she met fellow artist William Jurian Kaula (1871–1953). The couple married in 1902 and located in Boston, where they rented space at Fenway Studios. The couple worked and lived together for more than 50 years. Lufkin was a member of the Woman's Art Club of New York.
Kaula's work was included in the Pan-American Exposition of 1901, and the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in 1915. Her work was includes in several exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boston Art Club, the National Academy of Design, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Kaula died in 1957 in New Ipswich, New Hampshire. Some of the artist's papers are in the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.
In 2018 the D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts held a retrospective of William and Lee Kaula's work entitled Two Lives, One Passion: American Impressionist Paintings and Sketches by William Jurian Kaula and Lee Lufkin Kaula. Kaula's portrait of her husband, William, is in the collection of the Boston Athenæum.
References
External links
images of Kaula's work on Invaluable
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- George Loftus Noyes
- Lee Lufkin Kaula
- William Jurian Kaula
- Fenway Studios
- List of 20th-century women artists
- George Loftus Noyes
- Michele and Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts
