- Irene E. Parmelee
Irene E. Parmelee (d. 1934) was a painter and portrait artist born in Guilford, Connecticut. Parmelee studied under Henry Bryant of Hartford and
Nathaniel Jocelyn . She subsequently enrolled in art school at Yale, which had just begun admitting women. Parmelee later traveled to Paris and attended theAcadémie Julian between 1881-1884 where she studied with Robert-Fleury,Pierre Auguste Cot , andJules-Joseph Lefebvre . She was a career portrait artist and operated a studio in Springfield, Massachusetts from 1875-1929 (1).Parmelee is also cited under the alternate spelling of Parmely (2). Works by I.E. Parmelee may be found in the collections at Yale, Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, and Maine State Museum (2,3).
References
(1) Fahlman, B. Women Art Students at Yale, 1869-1913: Never True Sons of the University. "Woman's Art Journal" (1991). 12(1) 15-23.
(2) [http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=YD2316N222000.62969&profile=ariall&uri=link=3100006~!313390~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=5&source=~!siartinventories&term=Parmelee%2C+I.+E.%2C+d.+1939%2C+painter.&index=AUTHOR Smithsonian American Art Museum] Art Inventories Catalog - Smithsonian American Art Museum - Search "Parmelee"
(3) [http://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&f=&s=&record=1&maker=irene Amherst College, Mead Art Museum] Portrait of Chester W. Chapin by I.E. Parmelee.
External Links
[http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=YD2316N222000.62969&profile=ariall&uri=link=3100006~!313390~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=5&source=~!siartinventories&term=Parmelee%2C+I.+E.%2C+d.+1939%2C+painter.&index=AUTHOR Smithsonian American Art Museum] Art Inventories Catalog - Smithsonian American Art Museum - Search "Parmelee"
[http://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&f=&s=&record=1&maker=irene Amherst College, Mead Art Museum] Portrait of Chester W. Chapin by I.E. Parmelee.
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