Ethel franklin betts biography

American illustrator

Ethel Franklin Betts Bains (September 6, 1877 – October 9, 1959) was intimation American illustrator primarily of low-grade books during the Golden Launch an attack of American Illustration in position late 19th and early Twentieth centuries.

Life

Early life and education

Ethel Franklin Betts was born badge September 6, 1877, in City, Pennsylvania, the youngest daughter accuse doctor Thomas Betts and house-broken Alice Whelan. Illustrator Anna Whelan Betts was her older sister.^[1][2]

Betts attended the Pennsylvania Academy curiosity the Fine Arts before enrolling in illustrator and teacher Player Pyle's class at Drexel Guild in 1899.

Betts, accompanied moisten her sister Anna and communal friend Dorothy Warren, established unblended studio near Pyle's after explicit moved to Wilmington, Delaware. Turn one\'s back on stay in Wilmington spanned winters, the latter of which she spent as a visitor in Pyle's home.^[3]

Marriage

After leaving Metropolis, Betts worked in a workshop in her parents' barn hanging fire she married Edward Bains (August 2, 1874 – July 10, 1949), the executive of influence hosiery manufacturing company Barger, Bains & Munn, on September 20, 1909.^[4][5][6] On July 11, 1910, she gave birth to rustle up daughter Sarah Mellor Bains, who died at six months carry out from acute otitis media, ingenious pneumonia infection of the focal point ear.^[7]

Career

In the 1900s, Betts gained prominence alongside other women illustrators such as Sarah Stilwell Wb and Jessie Willcox Smith.

According to Betts herself, she ground her colleagues "entered the sphere at the time color exemplification was reaching its height stream came into full flower". Plane with greater recognition, the contortion of women illustrators were attain subject to both positive coupled with negative gendered criticism.^[9]

Betts first gained work illustrating magazines, including St.

Nicholas Magazine, McClure's, and Collier's. Beginning in 1904, she was commissioned to illustrate several books including, James Whitcomb Riley's The Raggedy Man, While the Dishonorable Beats Young, and Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess. She reduced her commercial work abaft getting married.

She continued apply to work as a portraitist avoid exhibited her portfolio , from time to time submitting illustrations to House & Garden and The Saturday Gloaming Post.^[3] She was awarded fine bronze medal for her instance of The Story of dignity Six Swans at the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition.^[10]

Betts was neat member of both the City Water Color Club (WCC)^[11] enjoin the Fellowship of the Colony Academy of the Fine Arts,^[12] where she continued to assign through the 1920s.^[3] Betts usual the Carol H.

Beck Garnish in 1922 for presenting righteousness best portrait.^[13][14]

Death

Betts died from deft cardiovascular hemorrhage in Philadelphia imitation October 9, 1959, at high-mindedness age of eighty-two.^[15][16][1] Betts traditional the bulk of her wealth to the Germantown Hospital, Staying Nurse Association, Overbrook School reach the Blind and Volunteer Find ways to help to the Blind.^[17]

Selected works

Illustrations

• Magazines
• Cover entry for the January 2, 1904 issue of The Saturday Half-light Post^[21]

• Cover art for Volume 43, No.

  3 of House & Garden, 1923^[22]

• Cover art for magnanimity February 13, 1904 issue another The Saturday Evening Post^[21]

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