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Cover art for Vanity Fair magazine, June 1914. Scanned from the artist's original sketch in India ink, gouache, and watercolor over pencil. Digitally restored.
Ethel Plummer, from a 1916 publication.

Ethel McClellan Plummer (March 30, 1888 – October 30, 1936) was an American artist [1] who resided primarily in New York. [2] She worked primarily with drawings, prints, and paintings. [2] She was the Vice President of the Society of Illustrators and Artists and exhibited at the Society of Independent Artists in 1910, the MacDowell Club in 1915, the Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by Women Artists for the Benefit of Woman Suffrage Campaign at the Macbeth Gallery (1915). She worked as an illustrator for various magazines, including Life, Vogue, Shadowland, and Vanity Fair. [3]

Plummer was born on March 30, 1888 in Brooklyn, New York City. [4] She studied at the Packer Institute and the New York School of Art. [5] On December 25, 1917, she married fellow artist Norman Jacobsen (1884–1944) in Hackensack, New Jersey. [5] [6] He was soon drafted into the American Expeditionary Forces and chose to pursue his art career in Europe after World War I. They divorced in late 1929 [6] and Plummer married Frederic E. Humphreys. She died from a cerebral hemorrhage on October 30, 1936 in Manhattan [7] [8] and was interred at the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn on November 2. [9]

References

  1. ^ "Checklist of the Exhibition - American Beauties: Drawings from the Golden Age of Illustration". Library of Congress. March 30, 2004. Retrieved 10 December 2009.
  2. ^ a b "CLARA". Washington, D.C.: National Museum of Women in the Arts. 2008. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2009.
  3. ^ Henri, Robert; Marian Wardle; Sarah Burns (2005). Marian Wardle (ed.). American Women Modernists: The Legacy of Robert Henri, 1910-1945. Brigham Young University Museum of Art. Rutgers University Press. p. 205. ISBN  978-0-8135-3684-2. Retrieved 10 December 2009.
  4. ^ Herringshaw, Thomas William (1926). "Plummer, Ethel". Herringshaw's American Blue Book of Biography. Chicago, Illinois: American Blue Book Publishers. p. 547. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
  5. ^ a b Holmes, Frank R. (1924). "Jacobsen, Ethel Plummer". Who's Who in New York (City and State). New York, New York: Who's Who Publications, Inc. p. 676. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
  6. ^ a b Johnson, Mindy. "Biographical Sketch of Ethel Plummer". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920. Alexander Street. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
  7. ^ "Ethel Plummer; Artist Was Wife of Colonel F. E. Humphreys of 102d Engineers". The New York Times. November 1, 1936. p. N10. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
  8. ^ "Deaths: Humphreys". The New York Times. November 2, 1936. p. 21. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
  9. ^ "Burial Search: Humphreys, Ethel Plummer". The Green-Wood Historic Fund. Retrieved 24 October 2024.