Lee, Laura, 1867-1954
Biography
Born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Landscape and portrait painter, jewelry designer and craftworker. Suffragette and Victorian dress reformer. Studied at Boston Museum of Fine Arts School with Crowninshield, Grundman, and Vonnoh. At the Academy Julian in Paris studied with Bouguereau, Lefebvre and Charles Lasar. Became known as the "Bloomer girl" because she wore loose Syrian style trousers. See Chris Petteys, Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 (Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1985), 430.
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Lee, Laura
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