Lot 189
Signed lower right. It is circa 1900 before she remarried in 1915 to Mr. Fabian. Lydia Dunham Smith Fabian (1857-1947). Mrs. Fabian is referenced in the 1930 Whos Who in American Art. She was included in the first showing at the New Mexico Art Museum in Santa Fe in 1917 and in July of 1918 she held a one person art show there. Accordingly, she then became the private pupil of Isabel Ross (dates unknown) and Ellen Baker (1839-1913) both prominent Americans in Parisian art circles at that time. Later study included time with Lucie Honiss of Pisa, Italy. Ossip Linde in Chicago and Henry Hensche of the Cape Cod School are also further mentioned as instructors, thus giving her quite a well rounded and international training. Almost nothing is known about her life during the decade of the 1880's. Having returned home to the United States after her European sojourn, we find her listed in the 1880 census as 23 years of age, an artist, and living at her parents home in Spring Township, Pennsylvania. She is mentioned next in the obituary of her father who died in 1890. Just the previous year he had moved to Toledo, Ohio. Lydia is mentioned as married " Mrs. Lincoln Smith " and also living in Toledo. She is noted in the local directories there, beginning in 1889 through 1895, as a portrait artist in that city. Around 1895 her husband found employment as a traveling salesman with the Emery, Bird, Thayer & Company, a department store out of Kansas City, Missouri. At that time it was the largest such store in the Southwest. She and her husband moved to nearby Eureka, Kansas, near the home of her uncle, F.A. Temple, later that same year. With that time of relative security, she decided to continue her artistic studies and enrolled at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, beginning with the Antique Class in January of 1897, and continuing through September of 1898. Her instructors there included John H. Vanderpoel, who specialized in instruction in water colors, Charles Francis Browne, Pauline Dohn, J. Buckley, Martha Baker, and Louis Wilson, among others. She also gained an honorable mention for her work while still a student there. In March of 1900 her husband died of pneumonia while on a trip to Kansas City, and he was returned to Eureka for burial. Lydia continued to live there and in Wichita, Kansas, for several years before eventually finding employment and appreciation, in 1904 as an art instructor with North-Western Please ask specific questions on details, condition, and shipping prior to bidding, ALL ITEMS ARE SOLD AS IS, and the bidder will be responsible for payment. We box and ship what we can to keep costs low, and use USPS and UPS. Large items, extremely fragile, and high value items will be packed by UPS. Quotes available on request
- Dimensions: 10" x 14.5" and 19" x 23" framed
- Condition: Very Good Condition. The frame has some flaking on the plaster.
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