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Eleanor Norcross, born Ella Augusta Norcross (June 19, 1854 – 1923), was an American painter who studied under William Merritt Chase and Alfred Stevens. She lived the majority of her adult life in Paris, France as an artist and collector and spent the summers in her hometown of Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Norcross painted Impressionist portraits and still lifes, and is better known for her paintings of genteel interiors. Her father provided her a comfortable living, under the proviso that she would not sell her paintings. With a life mission to provide people from her hometown the ability to view great works of art, Norcross collected art, made copies of paintings of Old Masters, and systematically documented decorative arts from the 12th through the 19th century. Her funding and art collection were used to establish the Fitchburg Art Museum. In 1924, her works were shown posthumously in Paris at the Louvre and Salon d'Automne, where Norcross was the first American to have had a retrospective. Her works were also shown the following year at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. ==Early life== Ella Augusta Norcross was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, about west of Boston, to Amasa Norcross and Susan Augusta Norcross. Her father was an attorney, Fitchburg's first mayor, state senator, and United States representative.〔〔 Her mother, Susan, had been a school teacher in the Fitchburg area and during the Civil War was a leader of the Ladies' Soldiers Aid Society, which provided clothing, blankets, and other supplies to soldiers from Fitchburg and other locations in the state of Massachusetts.〔〔 In 1863, her three-year-old brother Nelson died of scarlet fever,〔〔 and when she was 14, her mother died of consumption. Norcross and her father, the remaining household members, had a close relationship.〔〔 File:Norcross family.jpg Norcross was afforded a privileged education that was not available to many young ladies of her generation.〔 At 16 years of age, she graduated from Fitchburg High School,〔〔 and, beginning in 1870, she attended Wheaton Female Seminary,〔〔 now Wheaton College.〔 When she was 16 and 17 years old she wrote essays for ''Rushlight'', the school's literary journal. The nature of her essays provide insight into the woman she would become: one who would successfully operate in a male-oriented society, had an interest in bettering the plight of others, and appreciated historical things.〔 She graduated in 1872.〔 Frances Vose Emerson was a classmate at Wheaton, good friend from childhood, and ultimately a trustee for the Fitchburg Art Museum.〔 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「Eleanor Norcross」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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