AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ERA PEN & INK PAINTING INDIANS MISSOURI FAMOUS ARTIST M ACHEY

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I AM A LONG TIME TRUSTED EBAY SELLER I have been dealing in antiques, art and collectibles for many years, and selling on eBay for 10 years. I treat every customer like family. Please read my about me page, and check out my feedback. My listings all include vital information which you will find informative and cover most of your questions. Please take a minute to read everything. If you have questions, you can call me at home at . Thank You, Christian Chaffee ITEM DESCRIPTION This is an enchanting historical drawing , fresh from an old estate collection. This is a pen & ink by Mary Achey of American Indians, horses and a teepee village on the banks of the Missouri This is titled: "On the upper Missouri" Here is some biographical information on Mary Achey as borrowed from : Born in Ohio in 1832. Mary Michael married Philip Achey about 1852. As the wife of a cavalryman, she did pen-and-ink sketches of the Civil War camps in Colorado and Kansas. Her daughter died in 1867 and, holding her husband responsible, she left with her two sons. Traveling about the West, she lived in several places including Napa, CA in 1875, Oregon, and by 1880 she was homesteading near Aberdeen, WA where she lived until her death on Sept. 18, 1886. Working in oil and watercolor, she painted portraits and landscapes. In: Colorado and Washington Historical Societies. Credit to: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940" (A book I highly recommend)Business Directory; Women Artists of the American West . Another Biography from : A native of Ohio, Mary Achey did more sketching in the American West between 1860 and 1885 than any other female artist, possibly excepting Mary Hallock Foote. She was the descendant of a French painter, and according to her accounts, she completed over 500 works in oil, watercolor, pen and ink and pencil. Her subjects included landscapes of California, Oregon and Washington, army fort scenes, wild west genre, portraits, and still lifes, and she supported her two sons with the sales of her paintings. She lived for various time periods in Missouri, Colorado, California, Oregon, and Washington. Arriving in Colorado in 1860, she became the territory's first resident female artist and did views of Clear Creek that got attention in the Denver newspapers. In the early 1870s, she left her husband who felt asleep on the night watch of their only daughter with diphtheria, and she held him responsible for her death in 1867. Achey traveled the West with her two sons; she opened a studio in Central City, Colorado, and the local newspaper, the "Central City Register," publicized her "Oil Painting Carnival," of about 30 paintings which included landscapes, six portraits, and a buffalo chase. In 1876, she worked in the Napa Valley as a portrait painter, and finally she settled on a homestead in Washington Territory near Aberdeen, South Dakota about 1880. There she did historically accurate paintings of Indian villages and other sites. In 1885, she married Emerson A Woodruff of Canby, Oregon. Credit to: "Women Artists of the American West" by Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick"American Women Artists" by Charlotte Rubinstein And a third biography from : Born Ohio, 1832; died near Aberdeen, WA, Sept. 18, 1886. Painter, specialized in landscapes, portraits. Grew up in Ohio, married, and spent the next 20 years following her husband who was a member of the 2nd Colorado Calvary Volunteers. Between 1862-65, living in Kansas and Missouri and producing several drawings of army fort scenes in Colorado and Kansas. Lived in Colorado until moving to California in 1875, and then later settled in Washington and in Oregon. COLLECTIONS: Colorado Historical Society; Washington State Historical Society. Source: Susan Craig, "Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)" Kovinick, Phil and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick. An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of ... read more

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