Agnes Richmond (American, 1870-1964) was born in Alton, Illinois in 1870. She was most noteworthy for her portraits in pastoral scenes and Gloucester and Mountainville, NY. She studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts before moving to New York in 1888. She lived most of her life in Brooklyn and spent summers in Mountainville. She studied with John Twachtman, Walter Appleton Clark, and Kenyon Cox at the Art Students League and taught there from 1910 to 1914. She exhibited widely in San Francisco and the Academy of Design from 1908 to 1927. Richmond died in 1964.

Studied

St. Louis Sch. FA; ASL with Twachtman, Appleton, Clark & Kenyon Cox

Member

Allied AA; Fifty Am. Artists; NAWA; Brooklyn SA; Brooklyn PS; AAPL.

Exhibited

NAWA, 1911 (prize), 1922 (prize), 1924, 1933 (prize), 1936-37, 1946, 1948, 1950; PAFA Ann., 1912, 1922-23, 1927, 1937; Corcoran Gal. Biennials, 1914, 1919; Pan-Pacific Expo, San Fran., 1915; Soc. Indep. Artists, 1917-22, 1925, 1928; AIC, 1920, 1922; Salons of Am.; Sesqui Cent. Int. Expo., Phila., 1926; Brooklyn Soc. Artists, 1932, 1934-36, 1942-46, 1949; the Fifteen Gal., 1939 (solo); New Rochelle, NY, 1932 (prize); CGA;; NAD, 1922, 1924, 1927-28; Phila. WCC, 1927; Toronto; Montreal; CI; Newport AA; San Diego FA Soc.; AAPL; All. Artists Am, 1947 (prize), 1952 (prize), 1953 (prize); J. Allen Gal., NYC, 1981 (solo); Hickory Mus. Art, NC.

Work

San Diego FA Soc.; Hickory (NC) Mus. Art.

Resources

WW59; WW47; Falk, Exh. Record Series; Who Was In American Art 400 Years of Artists in America, p. 2765; askart.com.