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Annie Shepley Omori (1856 – 1943) was an American artist, activist, and translator. For the first fifty years of her life, she produced work under her maiden name, Annie Barrows Shepley. She studied art in New York under Harry Siddons Mowbray and in Paris at Académie Julian under Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Lucien Simon. After that, she established studios in New York and Connecticut, where she worked as a portrait painter and children's book illustrator. She married Hyozo Omori, a Japanese exchange student, in 1907 and moved with him to Japan, where they established the ''Yurin En'' settlement house to provide educational and recreational opportunities to the poor in Tokyo. They were leaders in the Japanese playground movement. Hyozo Omori died in 1913, and Shepley continued running the center. She also translated ''Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan'' with Kochi Doi in 1920. ==Artist== Shepley studied art under Harry Siddons Mowbray in New York. In Paris, she studied at Académie Julian under Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Lucien Simon. She established a studio in New York and later in Connecticut, where she painted portraits and illustrated children's books. Two paintings were exhibited the at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and Exposition: ''Work and Play'' and ''The Wonderful Story''. Other paintings that were representative of her work were ''Portrait of Artist's Niece (Rosamund Sargeant)'' and ''Portrait of a Young Woman.'' ''Portrait'' and ''Study of a Head'' were exhibited at the annual Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts exhibition held from December 1896 through February 1897. At that time, she lived at 96 Fifth Avenue in New York City. She exhibited a painting entitled ''Echo'' in 1897 at the Art Club of Philadelphia. About a dozen of her works were shown in a New York gallery owned by William Clausen in 1905. Annie Barrows Shepley, Portrait of Artist's Neice (Rosamund Sargeant).jpg|Annie Barrows Shepley, ''Portrait of Artist's Niece'' (Rosamund Sargeant) Annie Barrows Shepley, Portrait of a Young Woman.jpg|Annie Barrows Shepley, ''Portrait of a Young Woman'' 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「Annie Shepley Omori」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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