Bernice Pauahi Andrews Fernow

Lugar: Jersey City

Nascido: 1881

Morte: 1969

Biografia:

Bernice Pauahi Fernow (née Andrews; December 17, 1881 – April 20, 1969) was an American miniature painter. She attended Girls' High School in Brooklyn and Cornell University, graduating in 1904. At Cornell, she met her husband, engineer Bernhard Edward Fernow Jr., the son of forester Bernhard Fernow. They married in 1908 and lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Clemson, South Carolina, where her husband was head of the mechanical engineering department at Clemson College. In 1903, she joined the Art Students' League and studied with Theodora W. Thayer, H. Siddons Mowbray, Frank Vincent DuMond, John Henry Twachtman, and Irving R. Wiles. She exhibited her work widely, including at the International Exhibition of Art in Rome, the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, and a solo exhibition at Cornell University in 1924. A watercolor on ivory miniature of her daughter Ethel is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.