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== Artistic Career == |
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In 1893, at sixteen years of age, Nina exhibited |
In 1893, at sixteen years of age, Nina exhibited four painted ceramics at at the [[World's Columbian Exposition|Chicago World's Fair]]. Two of her porcelain paintings, one of [[Psyche (mythology)|Psyche]] and the other of the [[Madonna (art)|Madonna and Child]], were displayed on the wall of the ladies' parlor in the Nebraska building, a room decorated by women artists from the state.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Anonymous |date=July 1, 1893 |title=Nebraska Art at the Fair |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/416274477/?fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjQxNjI3NDQ3NywiaWF0IjoxNzEzODA1NjM0LCJleHAiOjE3MTM4OTIwMzR9.7MC5bmzuMblj9h8qw2_Sp7exSVyvxLMZboGSMQBut5c |work=Sioux City Journal |location=Sioux City, Iowa |pages=2}}</ref> With the Nebraska Ceramic Club, she displayed two additional ceramic works in the [[The Woman's Building (Chicago)|Woman's Building]] as part of an exhibition of various organizations headed by women in the United States.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Anonymous |date=April 16, 1893 |title=Worked by Women: Products of Feminine Hands Sent to the Fair |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/174801810/fulltextPDF/C8F8EC980F7E43B5PQ/2?sourcetype=Historical%20Newspapers |work=Chicago Daily Tribune |location=Chicago, Illinois |pages=25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Anonymous |date=April 15, 1893 |title=A Fremont Artist |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/499432918/?fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjQ5OTQzMjkxOCwiaWF0IjoxNzEzODA2NTc0LCJleHAiOjE3MTM4OTI5NzR9.mh8Ax9_wEzgPLhWKZ3qhvWTASn80nKjv5eHPVA0EAV4 |work=Fremont Tri-Weekly Tribune |location=Fremont, Nebraska |pages=3}}</ref> |
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took classes with William Merritt Chase and traveled to Europe to study art. She was engaged in many of the local clubs and entering her drawings and ceramics in local fairs. |
took classes with William Merritt Chase and traveled to Europe to study art. She was engaged in many of the local clubs and entering her drawings and ceramics in local fairs. |
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Nina Lumbard
Nina Lumbard | |
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Born | August 14, 1876 |
Died | December 4, 1972 |
Resting place | Mount Auburn Cemetery in Auburn Maine |
Nationality | American |
Known for | China painting |
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Nina Evangeline Lumbard (August 14, 1876 – December 4,1972) was an American ceramic painter, illustrator, and teacher who worked in Fremont and Omaha, Nebraska during the late nineteenth century.[1] During her brief career, she exhibited at the Chicago World's Fair and Trans-Mississippi Exposition, taught at the Omaha Art Institute, and illustrated a multitude of local publications.
Early Life
Nina was born on August 14, 1876 in Fremont, Nebraska, the only daughter to Dwight and Mary Lumbard, a banker and housewife. Nina had three brothers, the youngest of whom was shot and killed by a friend while hunting ducks.[2]
The Lumbard family were active in the Fremont community and practicing members of the local Methodist church. Nina's mother in particular was very involved with a number of Fremont's women's clubs in addition to practicing painting and needlework.[3] Like her mother, Nina was also a member of a myriad of clubs and participated in local fairs, winning awards for her fruit preserves, pickles, and paintings in ceramic, oil, and watercolor.[4][5]
Artistic Career
In 1893, at sixteen years of age, Nina exhibited four painted ceramics at at the Chicago World's Fair. Two of her porcelain paintings, one of Psyche and the other of the Madonna and Child, were displayed on the wall of the ladies' parlor in the Nebraska building, a room decorated by women artists from the state.[6] With the Nebraska Ceramic Club, she displayed two additional ceramic works in the Woman's Building as part of an exhibition of various organizations headed by women in the United States.[7][8]
Following this showing, Nina began to
took classes with William Merritt Chase and traveled to Europe to study art. She was engaged in many of the local clubs and entering her drawings and ceramics in local fairs.
figure out how other Wikipedia pages characterize their artists starting career. She exhibited four pieces at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. (only 17 at age)
Throughout the latter part of the 1890s, Nina spent her winters in Buffalo and New York taking art and design classes. It has been reported that at one point during these sojourns, she took lessons from William Merritt Chase, likely at his school.
In 1899, Nina opened a studio in the new Omaha Art Institute, which was housed within A. Hospe's music and art store.[9] Studio in Omaha. Keramic magazine. The one illustration.. It appears as though her professional career as an artist. In between her time of the studio and the other one in the first, she spent time traveling around Europe and learning artistic techniques abroad, which she implemented into her works when she returned home.
seemed to give lots of talks, Woman's Club in 1902.
Personal Life
On date, Nina married Ralph Lunn, a shoe salesman, at her family home in Fremont, Nebraska. Following their honeymoon, the couple moved to Augusta, Maine, where theon date, and moved to Augusta, Maine, the headquarters of the company following their honeymoon. Nina helped Lunn run the company. The couple had two children, blank in and Nina Jr. in year. Lunn passed away in march 1916. Mention that her father died around the same time? was struck by tragedy when, in august 1917, her father died.
She married Wallace White in 1917. and took on the duties of the senator wife.[10] During WWII, she worked as a Red Cross nurse in Washington D.C.
Death
Nina died at age 97 in Scottsdale, Arizona, where she was residing at the time.[11] She was laid to rest in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Auburn, Maine, where both of her husbands are also buried. Her epitaph reads, "I saw beauty everywhere."[1]
References
- ^ a b "Nina Evangeline Lumbard White (1876-1972) - Find..." www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
- ^ Anonymous (November 5, 1908). "Accidentally Killed by Companion with Shotgun: Edgar Lumbard Comes to Sad End from Weapon in Hands of Chum and Play Mate". Fremont Daily Herald. Fremont, Nebraska. pp. 1, 5.
- ^ Anonymous (May 13, 1942). "Mrs. Mary G. Lumbard: Mother of Shoe Mfgr. And of Mrs. Wallace White Dies". Sun-Journal. Lewiston, Maine. p. 9.
- ^ Anonymous (October 7, 1890). "Prize Winners: List of Premiums Awarded at the Late Fair". Fremont Tribune. Fremont, Nebraska. p. 3.
- ^ Anonymous (October 1, 1892). "Fair Premiums". Fremont Tri-Weekly Tribune. Fremont, Nebraska. p. 4.
- ^ Anonymous (July 1, 1893). "Nebraska Art at the Fair". Sioux City Journal. Sioux City, Iowa. p. 2.
- ^ Anonymous (April 16, 1893). "Worked by Women: Products of Feminine Hands Sent to the Fair". Chicago Daily Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. p. 25.
- ^ Anonymous (April 15, 1893). "A Fremont Artist". Fremont Tri-Weekly Tribune. Fremont, Nebraska. p. 3.
- ^ Humanities, National Endowment for the (1899-04-30). "Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, April 30, 1899, Editorial, Image 24". p. 24. ISSN 2169-7264. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
- ^ Anonymous (November 2, 1917). "Our Congressman Weds Auburn Lady in Simple Manner". The Bath Daily Times. Bath, Maine. p. 5.
- ^ Anonymous (December 7, 1972). "Mrs. Nina L. White: Widow of Former Congressman White Dies at Age 97". Lewiston Evening Journal. Lewiston, Maine. p. 2.
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