Frances Hunt Throop

Throop was born in 1860[1] in New York City.[2] She studied at the Art Students League of New York.[3] She was a member of the Brooklyn Art Association and the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.[2]

Throop exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[4]

Throop's grandfather was George B. Throop, a New York state senator and later Michigan state representative; her great uncle Enos T. Throop was the governor of New York from 1829 to 1832. In 1894 she married lawyer Samuel H. Ordway (1860-1934) (brother of businessman Lucius Pond Ordway, nephew of composer John Pond Ordway) and ended her painting career.[4][3] Samuel Ordway and Frances Throop Ordway had two children, Frances Hanson Ordway (1898-1903) and Samuel Hanson Ordway, Jr. (1900-1971). Samuel Jr. was, like his father, an advocate of civil service reform, serving on civil service commissions on both the state and federal levels. He was also active in conservation; the Samuel H. Ordway, Jr. Memorial Preserve in South Dakota was created in 1975 in his memory by The Nature Conservancy. Frances Throop Ordway died in 1933[1] in East Hampton, New York.[2]

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  Spring Carnations, by Frances Hunt Throop, 1893

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