Ida Waugh (October 24, 1846 – January 25, 1919) was an American illustrator of children's literature who often collaborated with her lifelong companion,

Amy Ella Blanchard Amy Ella Blanchard (June 28, 1854 – July 4, 1926) was a prolific American writer of children's literature. Early life Amy Ella Blanchard was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1854, the daughter of Daniel Harris Blanchard and Sarah Reynolds. She ...

Personal life

Ida Waugh was born in

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on October 24, 1846, the daughter of painter Samuel B. Waugh and his first wife, Sarah Mendenhall, therefore she was half-sister of painter

Frederick Judd Waugh Frederick Judd Waugh (September 13, 1861 in Bordentown, New Jersey – September 10, 1940) was an American artist, primarily known as a marine artist. During World War I, he designed ship camouflage for the U.S. Navy, under the direction of Ever ...

. Her step-mother was Mary Eliza Young Waugh, a miniaturist. She attended Académie Julian and

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in Paris, studying with Georges Callot,

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, and

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. In 1868 she attended the first "Ladies Life Class" at

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; in the same class there were

Emily Sartain Emily Sartain (March 17, 1841 – June 17, 1927) was an American painter and engraver. She was the first woman in Europe and the United States to practice the art of mezzotint engraving, and the only woman to win a gold medal at the 1876 World F ...

and Catherine Ann Drinker.

Career

Clara Louise Kellogg as Marguerite, 1864

Ida Waugh collaborated with her partner Amy Ella Blanchard in publishing children's books, Waugh as illustrator and Blanchard as writer. Waugh also published books on her own. Other than a children's book illustrator, Waugh was an award-winning painter. In 1869 she exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts two works, "The Bargain" and a portrait bust of Carl Gaertner. Ida Waugh, Little Cosette, 1870

Her self-portrait and another painting, "Little Cosette" (1870), are in the permanent collection of the

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, Philadelphia, both donated by Mrs. John S. Haug in 1961. They were part of the exhibition "Women and Biography" in 2014, including: Elizabeth Shippen Green,

Violet Oakley Violet Oakley (June 10, 1874 – February 25, 1961) was an American artist. She was the first American woman to receive a public mural commission. During the first quarter of the twentieth century, she was renowned as a pathbreaker in mural dec ...

Edith Emerson Edith Emerson (July 27, 1888 – November 21, 1981) was an American painter, muralist, illustrator, writer, and curator. She was the life partner of acclaimed muralist Violet Oakley and served as the vice-president, president, and curator of the ...

, Anne Minich, Catherine Mulligan, Mitzi Melnicoff, Alice Kent Stoddard, Aubrey Levinthal, Martha Armstrong, Mickayel Thurin, Edith Neff,

Barbara Bullock Barbara J. Bullock (1938) is an African American painter, collagist, printmaker, soft sculptor and arts instructor. Her works capture African motifs, African and African American culture, spirits, dancing and jazz in abstract and figural forms. She ...

, Gertrude Fisher-Fishman,

Mary Cassatt Mary Stevenson Cassatt (; May 22, 1844June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh's North Side), but lived much of her adult life in France, where she befriended Edgar De ...

, Millicent Krouse, Betty W. Hubbard, Helen Corson Hovenden. Blanchard was the great-aunt of Mrs. John S. Haug. Rev J. Henry Smythe Jr., a

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graduate who gained fame in 1904 at a Chicago convention by using a megaphone to ask for an ovation to President

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was one of the babies portrayed in the series by Ida Waugh, "Sunshine Babies" (1887); the firm A.D. Matthews' Sons reprinted them in 1907 with the help of the same Smythe to retrieve the original lithographs. Florence Sellers Coxe Paul by Ida Waugh

In the 1880s she painted the portrait of Florence Sellers Coxe Paul. Her most well-known work, ''Hagar and Ishmael'' was exhibited at the French Salon in 1888, and was then bought by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. In 1890 she published ''Ideal Heads'', a 21-page book with black-and-white illustrations by various artists, including the first illustration published by

Jessie Willcox Smith Jessie Willcox Smith (September 6, 1863 – May 3, 1935) was an American illustrator during the Golden Age of American illustration. She was considered "one of the greatest pure illustrators". A contributor to books and magazines during the lat ...

. In 1893 she exhibited at the

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in Chicago: "Pierrot", "Two Babies", and "All in Four Seconds" were exhibited in the Rotunda,

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, and "Hagar and Ishmael" was exhibited in the

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In 1895 she was featured, with other women painters, in an article in ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'', "Prominent Women Artists in Their Cozy Studios"; the article highlighted how Waugh's studio walls were "papered with numerous sketches... the majority of them being head and figure poses, as this artist, as is well known, makes a specialty of portrait painting". In 1896 the studio, at 1530 Chestnut Street, was damaged by water due to a fire that destroyed the studio next to hers, belonging to Carol Beck. In 1896 the portrait of Dr. Paul J. Sartain won the Norman W. Dodge prize at the National Academy of Design and was exhibited in 1901 at the

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. She exhibited in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago and New York. Waugh's illustrations from ''When Mother Was a Little Girl'' were made into chromolithographic postcards. She worked for McLoughlin Brothers, a New York publishing firm.

Later personal life

Ida Waugh was the lifelong companion of

(1856–1926), writer of children's literature. They met when Waugh was still living with her parents and Blanchard was hired as tutor of Waugh's younger brother, future painter Frederick Waugh. They remained together until Ida's death in 1919. Waugh and Blanchard owned adjacent summer cottages on

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. Together they organized the founding of a summer chapel there for the Episcopal church. The chapel was completed in 1916. Ida Waugh died on January 25, 1919, at her home in New York City, at 245 East 19th Street, and is buried next to her father at

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Works

* ''Alphabet Book: For Little Ones Who, If They Look, Will Find their Letters in This Book'' (1888), verses by

* ''Becky Longnose and other stories'' (1882) * ''Belle's pink boots'', by Joanna H. Mathews * ''Bless it'' (1890), by

* ''Bonny Bairns'' (1891), 48 large quarto pages with poems by

* ''The butterfly'' (1890), by

* ''A Daughter of the Forest'' (1903), by Evelyn Raymond * ''Dimple Dallas: the further fortunes of a sweet little maid'' (1900), by

* ''Dorothy Day'' (1898), by Julie M. Lippmann * ''Earning Her Way to College'', by Mrs Clarke Johnson * ''The Ferry Maid of the Chattahoochee'', by Annie M. Barnes * ''The Garden fence and other stories'' (1882) * ''The Girl Ranchers'', by Carrie L. Marshall * ''Her Father's Legacy'' (1901), by

Helen Sherman Griffith Helen Sherman Griffith (1873 - July 13, 1961) was an American author. An Iowan, she was the "prolific" author of the ''Letty Grey'' series of children's books, published by Penn Publishing Company of Philadelphia. She was the daughter of Hoyt ...

* ''His Lordship's Puppy'', by Theodora C. Elmslie * ''Holly berries'' (1881), by

* ''Little chicks and baby tricks'' (ca. 1885) * ''Little Polly Prentiss'' (1903), by Elizabeth Lincoln Gould * ''A Maid at King Alfred's Court: A Story for Girls'' (1900), by Lucy Foster Madison * ''A maid of the first century: a story for girls'' (1899), by Lucy Foster Madison * ''Mammy's baby'' (ca. 1890), by

* ''The Minstrel boy and other stories'' (ca. 1882) * ''Miss Wildfire'' (1897), by Julie M. Lippmann * ''Mistress May'' (ca. 1901), by

* ''My Lady Barefoot'' (1899), by Evelyn Raymond * ''My own dolly'' (1883), by

* ''An Odd Little Lass'' (1898), by Jessie E. Wright * ''Our boys'' (ca. 1880) * ''Over the hills'' (1882) * ''The proud little lady and other stories'' (1880) * ''A sweet little maid'' (1899), by

* ''Sweet P's'' (1903), by Julie Mathilde Lippmann * ''Tangles & curls, or, Little boys and little girls'' (1888), by

* ''Tell me a story'' (1888), by

* ''Twenty little maidens'' (1894), by

* ''Two Wyoming Girls and Their Homestead Claim: A Story for Girls'' (1899), by Carrie L. Marshall * ''Uncle Tom the Burglar'' (1901), by Mabel E. Wotton * ''The Walcott Twins'', by Lucille Lovell * ''Wee babies'' (1883), verse by

* ''Wee tots'' (1891), 48 original designs with poems by

* ''A Yankee Girl in Old California'' (1901), by Evelyn Raymond

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Waugh, Ida 1846 births 1919 deaths American women painters Artists from Philadelphia American women illustrators American children's book illustrators 19th-century American painters 19th-century American women artists 20th-century American painters 20th-century American women artists Académie Julian alumni Burials at The Woodlands Cemetery Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alumni Académie Delécluse alumni