Evelina Mount

Evelina Mount (1837-1920), was an American artist associated with the Hudson River School who is best known for her floral still life paintings.

Biography

Evelina 'Nina' Mount was the daughter of Henry Smith Mount, himself an artist and the older brother of the noted painter William Sidney Mount.[1] Her father died when she was only four years old.[2] She was raised in Stony Brook, New York, and her home and its environs provided the subject matter for many of her paintings.[1] She was trained as a painter by her uncle William and later by James McDougal Hart, and she sometimes copied William's paintings.[2][3] At least one painting formerly attributed to William has been deemed a copy by Evelina Mount.[3]

Mount is especially known for her floral still lifes but also painted landscapes.[1] She exhibited at the National Academy of Design in New York in the 1870s.[2] Although she is considered Long Island's first professional woman artist, she sold very few if any of her paintings, but gave some of them away.[2] Many of her surviving works are in the collection of the Long Island Museum.[2]

Her work was included in the 2010 survey exhibition "Remember the Ladies: Women of the Hudson River School" at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, New York.[4][5] as well as in the 2001 exhibition "Is Art Hereditary? The Mounts, A Family of Painters" at the Long Island Museum.[1]

References
  1. "Is Art Hereditary? The Mounts, a Family of Painters: June 23 through September 9, 2001". Traditional Fine Arts Organization website, May 28, 2011. Reprinted from Resource Library Magazine.
  2. Naylor, Natalie A. Women in Long Island's Past: A History of Eminent Ladies and Everyday Lives. Charleston, S.C.: The History Press, 2012.
  3. Black, M. American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: Works by Artists Born Before 1816, vol. I. Detroit, Michigan, 1991, p. 140.
  4. Dobrzynski, Judith H. "The Grand Women Artists of the Hudson River School". Smithsonian.com, July 20, 2010.
  5. "New Exhibition 'Remember the Ladies' Explores the Women Artists of the Hudson River School". Thomas Cole National Historic Site, May 2010.
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