Anna Elizabeth Klumpke belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Anna Elizabeth Klumpke as American portrait and genre painter (1856-1942).
Anna Elizabeth Klumpke was born at San Francisco in 1856. Her recorded nationality is United States. She trained at Académie Julian.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
She worked as painter and artist.
Among her best-known works are Rosa Bonheur and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
Recognition followed: Knight of the Legion of Honour (1924) and Temple Gold Medal (1889).
That the work was made in United States shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Anna Elizabeth Klumpke died in 1942, aged 86. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Knight of the Legion of Honour — 1924
- Temple Gold Medal — 1889
- Notable work: Rosa Bonheur
- Notable work: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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