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The Potters (artists Group)
The Potters was an informal group of American female artists in St. Louis, Missouri, who printed their original art, poetry and prose in ''The Potter's Wheel'', a monthly artistic and literary magazine produced from November 1904 to October 1907. The group was mentored by Lillie Rose Ernst, assistant superintendent of education in the St. Louis public school system. Several members of the group went on to have successful careers in the arts, notably Sara Teasdale, Caroline Risque, and the Parrish Sisters. Name The name ''The Potter's Wheel'' was inspired by Caroline Risque's cover art for the inaugural edition in November 1904, which depicted a pair of potters sitting opposite one another. Williamina Parrish, who acted as editor-in-chief of the magazine, preferred to call the group the "Self and Mutual Admiration Society". Members The members of the group were in their teens and early twenties. They included: * Grace Parrish (1882–1954) and Williamina Parrish (1880–1940), res ...
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Parrish Sisters
Williamina Parrish (September 9, 1879 – January 3, 1941) and Grace Parrish (August 21, 1881 – March 9, 1954) were respected photographers who worked together as The Parrish Sisters at the beginning of the twentieth century. Williamina "Will" Parrish was considered the leader of The Potters (artists group), The Potters, a group of late teens/early twenties female artists publishing, from 1904 to 1907, ''The Potter's Wheel,'' a monthly artistic and literary magazine. She was also the editor of the magazine. The name ''The Potter's Wheel'' was inspired by the facing pair of potters made by Caroline Risque which appeared in the inaugural November 1904 magazine. Grace Parrish, Will's younger sister, was also a very successful photographer. She was also a model and a violinist. Early life and family The Parrish sisters were born into an upper-middle-class family in St. Louis. Williamina Dinks Parrish was born on September 9, 1879, in St Louis, Missouri, and Grace Susan Parrish w ...
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Missouri History Museum
The Missouri History Museum in Forest Park (St. Louis), Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri, showcases History of Missouri, Missouri history. It is operated by the Missouri Historical Society, which was founded in 1866. Museum admission is free through a public subsidy by the Metropolitan Zoological Park and Museum District. Facilities The Jefferson Memorial Building, built in 1913 with profits from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, is the home of the museum. In 1988, the museum joined the Metropolitan Zoological Park and Museum District and began receiving sales tax revenue. In 2000, the Emerson Center, a significant building addition was completed, boosting attendance and exhibition capacity. The Emerson Center, featuring a ground-to-roof southern glass facade, was designed by Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, and included substantially more exhibition space, as well as an auditorium, classrooms, a restaurant and gift shop. The Emerson Center was selected by the American Institu ...
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American Artist Groups And Collectives
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American Women Artists
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Thekla M
Thekla ( grc-gre, Θέκλα, ''Thékla'', ) is a Greek feminine given name made famous by Saint Thecla, a 1st-century Christian martyr. In English, it is more commonly romanized as Thecla. In modern Russian language it is known as Fekla and considered to be an obsolete name following the Great October Revolution. Thekla may also refer to: People * Thekla, wife of Michael II (died ), first Empress-consort of Michael II of the Byzantine Empire * Thekla, daughter of Theophilos ( – after 867), daughter of Emperor Theophilos of the Byzantine Empire, ''Augusta'' * Mother Thekla (1918–2011), nun, academic and collaborator of the English musician and composer John Tavener * Thekla Beere (1902–1991), Irish civil servant * Thekla M. Bernays (1856–1931), American author, journalist, artist, art collector, speaker, and suffragette * Thekla Brun-Lie (born 1992), Norwegian biathlete * Thekla Kaischauri (born 1993), Austrian professional wrestler known mononymously as Thekla * Thekl ...
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Zoe Akins
Zoe Byrd Akins (October 30, 1886 – October 29, 1958) was an American playwright, poet, and author. She won the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for drama for '' The Old Maid''. Early life Zoe Byrd Akins was born in Humansville, Missouri, second of three children of Thomas Jasper and Sarah Elizabeth Green Akins. Her family was heavily involved with the Missouri Republican Party, and for several years her father served as the state party chairman. Through her mother, Akins was related George Washington and Duff Green. Her family moved to St. Louis, Missouri when Akins was in her early teens. She was sent to Monticello Seminary in Godfrey, Illinois for her education and later Hosmer Hall preparatory school in St. Louis. While at Hosmer Hall she was a classmate of poet Sara Teasdale, both graduating with the class of 1903. It was at Monticello Seminary that Akins wrote her first play, a parody of a Greek tragedy. Following graduation Akins began writing a series of plays, poetry and criticism ...
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Bellefontaine Cemetery
Bellefontaine Cemetery is a nonprofit, non-denominational cemetery and arboretum in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1849 as a rural cemetery, Bellefontaine is home to a number of architecturally significant monuments and mausoleums such as the Louis Sullivan-designed Wainwright Tomb, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The cemetery contains of land and over 87,000 graves, including those of William Clark, Adolphus Busch, Thomas Hart Benton, Rush Limbaugh, and William S. Burroughs. Many Union and Confederate soldiers from the American Civil War are buried at Bellefontaine, as well as numerous local and state politicians. History On March 7, 1849, banker William McPherson and lawyer John Fletcher Darby assembled a group of some of St. Louis's most prominent citizens to found the Rural Cemetery Association of St. Louis. This association sought to respond to the needs of a rapidly growing St. Louis by establishing a new cemetery several miles outside cit ...
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Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the world. It is a member of the Ivy League. Chartered by the Connecticut Colony, the Collegiate School was established in 1701 by clergy to educate Congregational ministers before moving to New Haven in 1716. Originally restricted to theology and sacred languages, the curriculum began to incorporate humanities and sciences by the time of the American Revolution. In the 19th century, the college expanded into graduate and professional instruction, awarding the first PhD in the United States in 1861 and organizing as a university in 1887. Yale's faculty and student populations grew after 1890 with rapid expansion of the physical campus and scientific research. Yale is organized into fourteen constituent schools: the original undergraduate col ...
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Reedy's Mirror
''Reedy's Mirror'' was a literary journal in St. Louis, Missouri in the fin de siècle era.Joseph Griffin''The Small Canvas: Introduction to Dreiser's Short Stories'' Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1985, p. 36 It billed itself "The Mid-West Weekly." Contributors included Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Ezra Pound, Vachel Lindsay, Harris Merton Lyon, Sara Teasdale, Albert Bloch and Theodore Dreiser. Edgar Lee Masters first published parts of his ''Spoon River Anthology'' in ''Reedy's Mirror'' over the course of 1914. Overview The journal first appeared on February 25, 1891, under the title of the ''Sunday Mirror'', published by The Sunday Mirror Company in St. Louis.Max J. Puzel''The Man in the Mirror: William Marion Reedy and His Magazine'' Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1998, pp. 299-300. On February 28, 1895, the title was changed to ''The Mirror''. On October 1896, it was bought back by James Campbell, and William Marion Reed ...
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William Marion Reedy
William Marion Reedy (1862 – July 28, 1920) was a St. Louis-based editor best known for his promotion of the poets Sara Teasdale, Edgar Lee Masters, and Carl Sandburg to the audience of his newspaper, ''Reedy's Mirror''. Politically, Reedy was a liberal Democratic Party (United States), Democrat and advocated Georgist economics. Biography Reedy was born in St. Louis in 1862. He spent his childhood in Kerry Patch and later attended St. Louis University. He began his career as a writer's assistant at the ''Missouri Republican''. He then worked for the ''St. Louis Globe-Democrat'' before starting his acclaimed tenure at the ''Mirror'' in 1893. He became owner of the ''Mirror'', where he published the work of up-and-coming poets like Sandburg, Teasdale and Masters. Reedy had an eye for talented new writers, often publishing writers before they gained widespread recognition. He published Edgar Lee Masters' poetry in 1914, work that later formed the ''Spoon River Anthology''. The poe ...
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The Cover Design By Caroline Risque, Issue Includes An Address By Lillie Rose Ernst
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pr ...
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Botany
Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek word (''botanē'') meaning " pasture", " herbs" "grass", or " fodder"; is in turn derived from (), "to feed" or "to graze". Traditionally, botany has also included the study of fungi and algae by mycologists and phycologists respectively, with the study of these three groups of organisms remaining within the sphere of interest of the International Botanical Congress. Nowadays, botanists (in the strict sense) study approximately 410,000 species of land plants of which some 391,000 species are vascular plants (including approximately 369,000 species of flowering plants), and approximately 20,000 are bryophytes. Botany originated in prehistory as herbalism with the efforts of early humans to identify – and later cultivate – ed ...
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