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Harriet Randall Lumis (1870 – April 6, 1953) was a landscape painter based in Springfield, Massachusetts.


Early life and education


Harriet Randall was born in Salem, Connecticut.

She began art studies after she married, in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1893. She first painted landscapes and studied at the New York Summer School in Cos Cob, Connecticut. Beginning in 1920, Lumis studied under Hugh Breckenridge at the Breckenridge School of Art in East Gloucester, Massachusetts.


Career


Harriet Randall Lumis helped to found the Springfield Art League. In 1921, she was elected as a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. She was one of the founders of the Academic Artists Association, which promoted realistic and traditional art (and opposed modernist art movements).[1] In widowhood she taught art.[2]


Personal life, death and legacy


Harriet Randall married architectural engineer Fred Williams Lumis in 1892. She was widowed in 1937. Harriet Randall Lumis died in Springfield, Massachusetts on April 6, 1953.[3] In 1977-1978 there was a show of Lumis's art at a gallery in Chicago,[4] and at the Rahr West Art Museum in Manitowoc, Wisconsin.[5][6] Her paintings are in the collections of Springfield's Museum of Fine Arts, the Bush–Holley House, the Mattatuck Museum, the Butler Institute of American Art, and the Asheville Art Museum,[7] among others.


References


  1. Pioneer Valley History Network, "Harriet (Randall) Lumis" Remarkable Women of the Pioneer Valley.
  2. William Benton Museum of Art, Connecticut and American Impressionism (William Benton Museum of Art 1980): 167. ISBN 9780918386328
  3. "Revolt, They Said". www.andreageyer.info. Retrieved 2017-08-10
  4. Anita Gold, "Collectibles: Show features antiques for compact spaces--and that's not all" Chicago Tribune (October 29, 1989): C16A.
  5. "December Exhibits Installed in Museum" Manitowoc Herald-Times (December 16, 1977): 6. via Newspapers.com
  6. R. H. Love, Harriet Randall Lumis, 1870-1953: an American impressionist, Issue 2 (R. H. Love Galleries 1977) (an exhibition catalog).
  7. Harriet Randall Lumis, "The Little Red Bush" (circa 1915), Asheville Art Museum.



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Harriet Randall Lumis, née Harriet Eunice Randall le 29 mai 1870 à Salem dans l'état du Connecticut et décédée le 6 avril 1953 à Springfield dans l'état du Massachusetts aux États-Unis, est une peintre paysagiste impressionniste américaine, connu pour ces tableaux de paysages peint dans les états du Massachusetts, du Rhode Island et du Connecticut.


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