Alice Newton Woods Ullman (November 22, 1871 – July 24, 1959) was an American painter, illustrator, and writer.

Life and career

Ullman was born in Goshen, Indiana, the daughter of future federal judge

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. She received her earliest education at the Girls Classical School of Indianapolis. In the mid-1890s she studied art at the second Indiana School of Art in Indianapolis, following this with a stint at the

Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art The Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art was summer school of art in Shinnecock Hills, Long Island that existed from 1891 to 1902. The director was William Merritt Chase. The school was one of the first and most popular ''plein air'' painting sch ...

, run by

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in 1891. From 1897 to 1898 she was at the

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, and from 1898 to 1903 she was at the

New York School of Art Parsons School of Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is a private art and design college located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Founded in 1896 after a group of progressive artists broke away from established Manhatt ...

; she also spent time in Paris at the

Académie Colarossi The Académie Colarossi (1870–1930) was an art school in Paris founded in 1870 by the Italian model and sculptor Filippo Colarossi. It was originally located on the Île de la Cité, and it moved in 1879 to 10 rue de la Grande-Chaumière in the ...

and

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. When in Paris she rented a large studio for herself in order to work from home - during this time she met and became friends with Mina Loy who was also studying in Paris. Her instructors included Chase, T. C. Steele, and William Forsyth. While in Paris she came to know Margaret Cravens, Gertrude Stein,

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, and other members of the American expatriate arts community. From 1903 to 1921 Ullman was married to the artist

Eugene Paul Ullman Eugene Paul Ullman (March 27, 1877 in New York City – April 30, 1953 in Paris, France) was an American Impressionist painter. Biography He was the youngest of the five children of chemist and manufacturer Sigmund Ullman and Pauline Wimpfheimer. ...

, with whom she had two sons, sculptor

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and artist Paul. The couple married in Paris and lived abroad, but after their separation she returned to the United States, where from 1917 until 1925 she was active in Provincetown, Massachusetts. There she befriended Eugene O'Neill, at whose wedding to

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she would serve as the sole witness. She exhibited widely after her return, largely in Indiana, and belonged to a number of organizations including the

National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors The National Association of Women Artists, Inc. (NAWA) is a United States organization, founded in 1889 to gain recognition for professional women fine artists in an era when that field was strongly male-oriented. It sponsors exhibitions, awards ...

and the

National Arts Club The National Arts Club is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and members club on Gramercy Park, Manhattan, New York City. It was founded in 1898 by Charles DeKay, an art and literary critic of the ''New York Times'' to "stimulate, foster, and promote public ...

. Ullman wrote and illustrated six books dealing with women's liberation between 1902 and 1927; one of these, the 1912 novel ''Fame Seekers'', was based on her time as a student in Paris. She also contributed short pieces to such magazines as '' The Century'', '' McClure's'', ''Pearson's'', '' The Smart Set'', and others. Ullman died in New York City.

Works

Novels

*''Edges'' (1902) *''A Gingham Rose'' (1904) *''Fame Seekers'' (1912) *''The Thicket'' (1913) *''The Hairpin Duchess'' (1924) *''The Gilded Caravan'' (1927) from

Plays

*''The Devil's Glow'' (1918)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ullman, Alice 1871 births 1959 deaths American women painters American women illustrators American illustrators American women novelists American women short story writers 19th-century American painters 19th-century American women artists 20th-century American painters 20th-century American short story writers 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American women artists People from Goshen, Indiana Painters from Indiana Novelists from Indiana Art Students League of New York alumni Parsons School of Design alumni Académie Colarossi alumni Académie Carmen alumni Students of William Merritt Chase American expatriates in France Novelists from New York (state)