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Gretchen Woodman Rogers (1881–1967) was an American painter associated with the Boston School.


Life and career

Gretchen Woodman Rogers was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1881. From 1900 to 1907 she studied at the
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under Edmund C. Tarbell, winning several awards while still a student. Tarbell once called her "the best pupil I ever had...a genius." Rogers was a highly regarded painter in her day. She exhibited at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the
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, and was mentioned frequently in ''
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''. She was a founding member of the Guild of Boston Artists. Her best-known painting is ''Woman in a Fur Hat'', a self-portrait, which won a silver medal at the
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in 1915. The painting is part of the permanent collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. In 2001 it was included in an MFA exhibition, ''A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston, 1870-1940'', and appeared on the cover of the exhibition catalog. In 2014 it was included in ''Painting Women'', a touring exhibition of 34 paintings by women artists. In an interview, curator Erica Hirshler named it as one of her two favorites, noting that it deliberately echoes
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's '' Girl with a Pearl Earring'' in its pose, title, and "attention to light and texture". Although best known for
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and
portrait painting Portrait Painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to represent a specific human subject. The term 'portrait painting' can also describe the actual painted portrait. Portraitists may create their work by commission, for public and pr ...
, Rogers also painted still lifes and landscapes, and sometimes worked with
pastel A pastel () is an art medium in a variety of forms including a stick, a square a pebble or a pan of color; though other forms are possible; they consist of powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments used in pastels are similar to those use ...
s. In 1930 Rogers was still exhibiting, grouped with "such well-known artists" as Adelaide Cole Chase, Louis Kronberg, and " Mrs. Philip L. Hale" in ''The American Magazine of Art''. Soon afterwards, unable to support herself as an artist during the
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, she gave up her
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studio and apparently quit painting. Little is known about her later life. She died in
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in 1967.


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External links


"Still Life" by Gretchen Woodman Rogers
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

exhibition highlights and wall text {{DEFAULTSORT:Rogers, Gretchen Woodman 1881 births 1967 deaths 20th-century American painters American women painters Artists from Boston Painters from Massachusetts School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts alumni 20th-century American women artists Boston School (painting)