Lily Irene Jackson
Lily Irene Jackson | |
|---|---|
 Jackson, c. 1893 | |
| Born | September 17, 1848 Parkersburg, Virginia, U.S. |
| Died | December 9, 1928 (aged 80) Parkersburg, West Virginia, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Painting |
Lily Irene Jackson (September 17, 1848 – December 9, 1928),[1] was an American artist and arts organizer active in West Virginia who specialized in paintings of animals.
Biography
[edit]Lily Irene Jackson was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia to Carrie C. Glime Jackson and John Jay Jackson, Jr., an attorney and later a federal judge.[1][2] She had one sibling, her brother Benjamin.[2] Her uncle Jacob B. Jackson was a governor of West Virginia and another uncle, James Monroe Jackson, was a Congressman.[1] According to a letter written in 1868 by U.S. Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, Jackson (then 20) was "a little deaf".[2] She lived in the family home, 'Carrinda', her entire life.[3]
Jackson studied art in New York, and both her paintings and her sculpture were praised by critics.[4] She is best known as a painter of animals and as an arts organizer.[1]
In 1887, she organized the Parkersburg Art Society and was elected its first president.[1] In 1892, she organized contributions by West Virginia women to the state’s exhibit at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair.[1] She exhibited two of her own oil paintings at the fair: Watching and Waiting and Anticipation,[5] both with dogs as subjects.[6] Anticipation featured two then-famous St. Bernard[7] dogs: one owned by actor Sarah Bernhardt, and another from New York that had recently sold for the large sum of $6000 (roughly $150,000 in 2015 dollars).[6] Watching and Waiting, which featured a pair of Jackson's own dogs (a pointer and a setter) hung in the Board Room of the Women's Building at the fair.[8]
In 1917, Jackson published a chapbook of poetry, From One Who Loves You.[9]
Jackson died in Parkersburg in 1928 of diabetic coma.[3]
Legacy
[edit]Jackson's work is held by the Blennerhassett Museum of Regional History, the West Virginia State Museum, and other institutions.[1] She was the subject of a 2004 exhibition at the Parkersburg Art Center.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g Allen, Bernard L. "Lily Irene Jackson". The West Virginia Encyclopedia, December 7, 2015.
- ^ a b c Chase, Salmon Portland, and John Niven. The Salmon P. Chase Papers: Correspondence, 1865-1873, pp. 272, 275.
- ^ a b Hyde, Dan. "Descendants of John Jay Jackson". Bucknell University website.
- ^ Willard, Frances E., and Mary A. Livermore, eds. A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. New York: Moulton, 1893, p. 415.
- ^ Nichols, K. L. "Lily Irene Jackson (1848-1928) Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 31 January 2019.
- ^ a b Wood County Historical Society. "World’s Fair Brings Parkersburg to Chicago". The Parkersburg News and Sentinel, Jan. 17, 2017.
- ^ There is some confusion over the dog breed(s) in this painting. The dogs may have been misidentified as St. Bernards, or Jackson may have exhibited a third painting of two other kinds of dogs. See Hyde, Dan, "U. S. Women Painters: 1893 Chicago World's Fair and Exposition: Lily Irene Jackson (1848-1928)". Bucknell University website.
- ^ Nichols, K.L. "(Unidentified) Women Painters: 1893 Chicago World's Fair and Exposition". Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893 website.
- ^ a b Hyde, Dan. "Dan's Impressions of Jackson Reunion 2004: Lily Irene Jackson Art Exhibit at Parkersburg Art Center". Bucknell University website, August 10, 2004.
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