Gabrielle D. Clements
| Gabrielle de Veaux Clements | |
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Ellen Day Hale, Portrait of a Woman, said to be Gabrielle Clements, 1883, Paris
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September 11, 1858 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Died | March 26, 1948 (aged 89) Folly Cove, Cape Ann, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | American |
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| Movement | Realism |
| Awards | Toppan Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts |
 Studio portrait of Gabrielle Clements, est. 1920s |
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Etching of a house, est. 1930s, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution |
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Etchings by Clements, Digital Maryland |
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Etchings by Clements, Prints and Photographs Collection, Library of Congress |
Gabrielle de Veaux Clements (September 11, 1858 – March 26, 1948) was an American painter, print maker, and muralist. She studied art at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and in Paris at Académie Julian. Clements also studied science at Cornell University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree. She created murals, painted portraits, and made etchings. Clements taught in Philadelphia and in Baltimore at Bryn Mawr School. Her works have been exhibited in the United States and at the Paris Salon. Clements works are in several public collections. Her life companion was fellow artist Ellen Day Hale.
Gabrielle de Veaux Clements was born in Philadelphia in 1858. Her parents were Dr. Richard Clements and Gabrielle de Veaux. Her mother Gabrielle de Veaux was from South Carolina. American Revolutionary War hero, General Francis Marion, her maternal ancestor, was called "Swamp Fox". Clements attended Miss Longstreth's school in Philadelphia and developed an interest in art as a teenager.
In 1875, Clements attended the Philadelphia School of Design for Women in Philadelphia under Charles Page, with whom she studied lithography. She then attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York from 1876 to 1880, where she studied science, made scientific drawings, and received her Bachelor of Science degree. Her senior thesis was A Study of Two German Masters in Medieval Art, Dürer and Holbein. After completing her studies at Cornell, Clements returned to Philadelphia and attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1881 to 1882, under Thomas Eakins. She won the school's Toppan Prize.Stephen Parrish taught her to be an etcher in 1883. She produced a number of lithographs and scientific drawings during her school years.
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