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Mina Fonda Ochtman (1862–1924) was an
American Impressionist American Impressionism was a style of painting related to European Impressionism and practiced by American artists in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century through the beginning of the twentieth. The style is characterized by loose b ...
painter noted for her watercolors of landscapes and coastal scenes. She was wife of the artist
Leonard Ochtman Leonard Ochtman (October 21, 1854 – October 27, 1934) was a Dutch- American Impressionist painter who specialized in landscapes. He was a founding member of the Cos Cob Art Colony and the Greenwich Society of Artists. Biography and ca ...
, and an active member of the Cos Cob Art Colony in
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the early 20th century.


Life and career

Mina Fonda was born in
Laconia, New Hampshire Laconia is a city in Belknap County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 16,871 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, up from 15,951 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. It is the county seat of Belknap County. La ...
in 1862. In 1886 she went to New York City to study at the
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with Kenyon Cox. She married Leonard Ochtman in 1891. They settled in Cos Cob and established a summer art school in 1910. Leonard served as the founder and first vice president of the Greenwich Society of Artists in 1912, and served as its president from 1919 to 1932. The forested home that Leonard and Mina shared was known as "Greyledge," and served as a center of attraction for local artists. Their home and the landscapes which surrounded it are featured in many of their works. They had two children, Dorothy Ochtman Del Mar, who was also an artist, and Leonard Ochtman Jr. Mina Ochtman was a member of the National Association of Women Artists as well as several watercolor societies. She died in 1924.


Further reading

Larkin, Susan G. 1989.
The Ochtmans of Cos Cob: Leonard Ochtman (1854-1934), Mina Fonda Ochtman (1862-1924), Dorothy Ochtman (1892-1971), Leonard Ochtman, Jr. (1894-1976)
'. Greenwich, Conn: Bruce Museum.


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1862 births 1924 deaths American women painters 19th-century American painters 20th-century American painters 19th-century American women artists 20th-century American women artists Art Students League of New York alumni National Association of Women Artists members People from Laconia, New Hampshire Painters from New Hampshire {{US-painter-1860s-stub