Clara Erskine Clement Waters
General Information
Occupation: Art Historian, Architectural Historian
Date of Birth: January 01, 1834
Date of Death: January 01, 1916
Birth City: St. Louis
Birth State/Province: Missouri
Birth Country: United States
Resident City: Cambridge
Resident State/Province: Massachusetts
Resident Country: United States
Notes: Clara Erskine was tutored privately. She traveled extensively, spending time in Italy, Japan, China, and India. Her writings include texts on the history of architecture, the use of symbolism in Christian Art and a biographical encyclopedia of women artists from the seventh century BCE to the twentieth century CE
Archive/Repository: IAWA, Special Collections Newman Library, Rare Book room
Sources: Willard, Frances E., and Mary A. Livermore, eds. A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Detroit: Gale Research Company, Book Tower, 1967.
Specialties
Subject: American Art and Architectural Historian
Subject: Women in the Fine Arts
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Publications By
Title: Simple Story of the Orient
Publication: printed privately
Title: Legendary and Mythological Art
City: Boston
Title: Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers, and their Works
Publication: Ticknor and Company
City: Boston
Title: Artists of the Nineteenth Century and their Works
Co-author: Laurence Hut-ton
Title: Eleanor Maitland
Notes: Novel
Title: History of Egypt
Title: Women in the Fine Arts from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
City: Boston and New York
Title: Christian Symbols and Stories of the Saints
Title: Stories of Art and Artists
Title: Art treasures of Italy
Publisher: Estes and Lauriat
City: Boston
Notes: Newman Library, Spec Folio, N6911.L95 1887 V.1
Title: Angels in Art
Publisher: L.C.Page
City: Boston
Notes: Newman Library, Spec Small, N8090.W3 1898
Title: Charlotte Cushman
Publisher: D. Bogue
City: London
Notes: Newman Library, Spec Storage, PN2287.C8 W4 1882
Publications About
Title: Dosia's Daughter
Author: Henri Greville
Notes: She translated the novel.
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