Harriet Randall Lumis (1870 – April 6, 1953) was a landscape painter based in

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Early life and education

Harriet Randall was born in Salem, Connecticut. She began art studies after she married, in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1893. She first painted landscapes and studied at the New York Summer School in Cos Cob, Connecticut. Beginning in 1920, Lumis studied under

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at the Breckenridge School of Art in East Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Career

Harriet Randall Lumis helped to found the Springfield Art League. In 1921, she was elected as a member of the

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. She was one of the founders of the Academic Artists Association, which promoted realistic and traditional art (and opposed modernist art movements). In widowhood she taught art.

Personal life, death and legacy

Harriet Randall married architectural engineer Fred Williams Lumis in 1892. She was widowed in 1937. Harriet Randall Lumis died in

on April 6, 1953. In 1977-1978 there was a show of Lumis's art at a gallery in

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, and at the

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. Her paintings are in the collections of Springfield's Museum of Fine Arts, the Bush–Holley House, the

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, the

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, and the

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,Harriet Randall Lumis
"The Little Red Bush"
(circa 1915), Asheville Art Museum. among others.

References

External links

* Richard H. Love, ''Harriet Randal Lumis: Grand Dame of Landscape Painting'' (Haase-Mumm Pub. Co. 1989) . A 16-page booklet about the artist. {{DEFAULTSORT:Lumis, Harriet Randall 1870 births 1953 deaths American women painters 19th-century American painters National Association of Women Artists members 20th-century American painters 19th-century American women artists 20th-century American women artists American landscape painters People from Salem, Connecticut Painters from Connecticut Artists from Springfield, Massachusetts Painters from Massachusetts