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Sarah De St. Prix Wyman Whitman
American, 1824-1904
Golden Goddess
Oil on Canvas
24 by 28 in, w/ frame 32 ¼ by 36 ¼ in
Signed lower right

Inventory Number: 01519
1800-1899 American Figurative Period 1800-1899 19th Century Impressionist/Post Impressionist

See Artist Bio below.


Sarah De St. Prix Wyman Whitman
American, 1824-1904

Born in either Baltimore, Maryland or Lowell, Massachusetts (see below), Sarah Whitman was a painter of flower paintings, portraits, and landscapes. In the 1890s, she focused on stained glass. She also became one of the most important book designers of her day, credited with revolutionizing book design.

In 1877, she studied in France with Thomas Couture at the Villiers-le-Bel and also studied with William Morris Hunt about whom she wrote a tribute in 1879 in "International Review." She traveled to England and France in the 1890s, meeting with James Whistler, and again in the early 1900s.

From 1877 to 1891, she was active in Boston and exhibited widely including at the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the 1893 Columbian Exhibition in Chicago.

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