Artwork Title: Spring Landscape in France

Spring Landscape in France

Willie Betty Newman

Willie Betty Newman grew up in Murfreesboro. She traveled to France in the 1890s to attend the Académie Julian and to exhibit her work in Parisian salons. Although her training was traditional, Newman was inspired by the experimental French Impressionists, as seen in works like Spring Landscape in France. Cognizant of the attitude towards women artists, she often signed her paintings “W.B. Newman” to obscure her gender. Later she opened a studio in Nashville and was commissioned to paint portraits of many notable Tennesseans, including President James K. Polk. (http://nashvillearts.com/2017/05/impressions-summer-pictorial-celebration-season-stanford-fine-art/)
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