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Alice Brown Chittenden (October 14, 1859 - October 13, 1944) was an American painter based in San Francisco, California who specialized in flowers, portraits, and landscapes. Her life's work was a collection of botanicals depicting California wildflowers, for which she is renowned and received gold and silver medals at expositions. She taught at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art (now the San Francisco Art Institute) from 1897 to 1941. == Personal life == Chittenden was born in Brockport, New York in 1859 to Joseph Gladding Chittenden and Ann Miriam Green Chittenden.〔(''Portraits''. ) Larribeau. Retrieved March 21, 2014.〕〔 Her parents had settled in San Francisco in 1858 from New York, but her mother returned to New York to await her birth. She had a sister, Carrie, who was two years younger than herself.〔1880 census, San Francisco, California. Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.〕 File:Alice Brown Chittenden - Ann Miriam Green Chittenden - 1900.jpg|Alice Brown Chittenden, ''Ann Miriam Green Chittenden'' (1826-1901), oil, 32 ½” x 38”, 1900 File:Alice Brown Chittenden - Joseph Gladding Chittenden - 1893.jpg|Alice Brown Chittenden, ''Joseph Gladding Chittenden'' (1826-1897), pastels, 23 ½” x 19 ½” 1893 Her father worked in wood mills in San Francisco. She attended Denman Grammar School and won a silver medal for being at the top of her class when she graduated in 1876.〔 She studied with Virgil Williams at the School of Design (later known as the California School of Fine Arts and, today, San Francisco Art Institute) from 1880 to 1882. She received medals for both drawing and painting.〔(''Alice Brown Chitterden''. ) California Pioneers. Received March 21, 2014.〕 She married Charles Parshall Overton〔Barbara Lekisch. ''(Embracing Scenes about Lakes Tahoe & Donner: Painters, Illustrators & Sketch Artists 1855-1915 )''. Great West Books; 2003. ISBN 978-0-944220-14-6. p. 47.〕 in 1886 but left him and returned to her parents home in 1887, a few months before her daughter Miriam Overton was born in 1887. Overton became vice president and manager of the Union Fish Company in San Francisco. Alice was divorced by 1900 when she and her daughter, Miriam, lived with her mother on Octavia Street in San Francisco. Her sister, Carrie, and her family also lived with Ann M. Chittenden. Carrie's husband was William Taylor, a sea captain.〔Alice B. Chittenden, 1900 census, San Francisco, CA. United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls.〕 Chitterden never remarried.〔 File:Alice Brown Chittenden - Miriam Chittenden - 1893.jpg|Alice Brown Chittenden, ''Miriam Chittenden'' (1887-1969), pastels, 22 3/4” x 32 3/4”, 1893 File:Alice Brown Chittenden, Garden on Octavia Street, 1900.jpg|Alice Brown Chittenden, ''Garden on Octavia Street,'' 1900 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alice Brown Chittenden」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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