Euphemia Bakewell (1870-1921) was an American bookbinder.

Biography

She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on 30 January 1870 to Benjamin Bakewell (an executive with Bakewell, Pears & Co.) and Ellen Frances Boardman (daughter of Rev.

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). She was often known to her family as "Effie" or "Miss Ef". She studied at the Pittsburgh School of Design, and then under

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. While in New York, she met Mary Helen Wingate Lloyd, who remained a lifelong friend. Bakewell spent time in Europe, where she studied painting in Paris at the

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. In 1902, she studied under

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at his Doves Bindery, and continued her study of

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back in Paris. Upon her return to the United States the following year, she lived with her sister Mary in the Sewickley neighborhood of Pittsburgh, where she established her own bindery. In Pittsburgh, she taught

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(and, briefly, a group of Hunt's friends). Due to a detached retina, she was forced to bring her bookbinding activities to a close. Throughout her life, she maintained close ties to both the American and European bookbinding communities. During the First World War, Bakewell travelled to Europe to assist with relief efforts. With funding from her friend Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt and her husband Roy A. Hunt, Bakewell worked to help orphans and child refugees. In September 1918, she travelled to France with the YMCA's Educational Department to teach, read to, and give lectures to soldiers. She returned to the United States 1919. She died of pernicious anemia on 25 December 1921.

References

External links

Guide to the Papers of the Bakewell-McKnight Family, 1815-1990, (bulk 1861-1919)
at the Heinz History Center
Guide to the Photographs of the Bakewell-McKnight Family, 1825-c1945 (bulk 1861-1919)
at the Heinz History Center {{DEFAULTSORT:Bakewell, Euphemia Bookbinders Artists from Pittsburgh 1870 births 1921 deaths American people with disabilities