Jenny Eakin Delony
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May 13, 1866 Washington, Arkansas |
| Died | April 1, 1949 (aged 82) Little Rock, Arkansas |
| Resting place | Oakland Cemetery, Little Rock, Arkansas 34°43′38.26″N 92°15′40.65″W / 34.7272944°N 92.2612917°WCoordinates: 34°43′38.26″N 92°15′40.65″W / 34.7272944°N 92.2612917°W |
| Nationality | American |
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Jenny Eakin Delony, also known as Jenny Eakin Delony Rice and Jenny Meyrowitz, (1866–1949) was an American painter and educator. She specialized in portraits of notable and historic figures in the United States, but also made miniature, landscape, wildlife, still life, and genre paintings. She was the founder of collegiate art education in Arkansas.
Delony was born in Washington, Arkansas on May 13, 1866, to Alchyny Turner Delony, a lawyer, and Elizabeth Pearson Delony.
Delony married Nathaniel J. Rice of Denver, Colorado, on December 10, 1891. He died in 1893. Her second marriage was to Paul A. Meyrowitz, on November 19, 1910 in Chicago, Illinois.
She was a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and Daughters of the American Revolution.
She received a gold medal in music and art when she studied at the Wesleyan Female Institution in Staunton, Virginia. Delony began her professional study at Cincinnati Art Academy from 1886 to 1888. At least two years followed in Paris, where Delony studied at the Académie Julian, the Académie Delécluse, and in the atelier of painter Paul-Louis Delance.
She later studied at the St. Louis School of Art from 1892 to 1893, then in Venice sometime prior to 1895 with Italian painter Stefano Novo. Delony entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1896, which was the first year women were admitted there. The same year she would be among the first women to study artistic anatomy at the École de Médecine in Paris. She also studied at some time under the American painter William Merritt Chase and was his personal secretary at Shinnecock, a summer school Chase ran on Southampton on Long Island from 1891 to 1902.
Jenny Eakin Delony was one of the first woman artist from Arkansas to gain a reputation as a successful painter in the United States and internationally. She was a member of the American Artists Professional League,Association of Women Painters and Sculptors and the National Arts Club, both in New York. Delony became one of the first women members and one of the first women to exhibit at the National Academy of Design. Her works were exhibited at Philadelphia, Boston and New York miniature painters societies, the Woman's Art Club of New York, National Academy of Design, and the New York Water Color Club.
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