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Ruth Payne Burgess, (October 11, 1865 in Montpelier, Vermont — March 11, 1934 in New York), was a naturalistic painter of portraits, still lifes, and genre work.〔 ==Personal life== Ruth Payne Jewett was born in Montpelier, Vermont in 1865,〔 the daughter of Elisha P. Jewett and Julia Kellogg Field Jewett.〔Albert Nelson Marquis. ''(Who's who in New England: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men and Women of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut )''. A.N. Marquis; 1915. p. 185.〕 Her grandparents were Captain Nathan Jewett and Ruth Payne and her great-grandfather was Elisha Payne.〔Daughters of the American Revolution. ''(Lineage Book )''. The Society; 1897. p. 175.〕 She attended school in Northampton, Massachusetts at the Mary A. Burnham School.〔 Ruth Payne Jewett met John William Burgess in Vermont through a mutual friend, artist Thomas Waterman Wood.〔Joseph A. Citro. ''(Green Mountains, Dark Tales )''. UPNE; 1 April 2001. ISBN 978-1-58465-134-5. p. 72.〕 Burgess founded the Columbia University's political science department.〔(''Ruth Payne Burgess.'' ) Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved March 17. 2014.〕 She married John Williams Burgess on September 2, 1885.〔〔John F. Ohles. ''(Biographical Dictionary of American Educators )''. Greenwood Publishing Group; 1978. ISBN 978-0-313-04012-2. p. 204.〕 Burgess was previously married on August 24, 1869 to Augusta Thayer Jones,〔 who died in 1884.〔 She was described as an artist who was "highly intelligent, well educated, and an accomplished musician."〔 Ruth and her husband had one child,〔 Elisha Payne Jewett Burgess,〔Jan Onofrio. ''(Tennessee Biographical Dictionary )''. North American Book Dist LLC; 1 June 1999. ISBN 978-0-403-09700-5. p. 142.〕 and in 1905 had houses in New York City and Montpelier, Vermont.〔''(American Art Annual )''. MacMillan Company; 1905. p. 334.〕 After John Burgess retired from Columbia, the couple lived in Newport, Rhode Island in a house named "Athenwood" and in Brookline, Massachusetts.〔〔 John William Burgess died of a heart attack in Brookline, Massachusetts on January 13, 1931.〔〔 Ruth Payne Burgess died in March 1934 and her funeral was held on March 14. It was interrupted when her son, Elisha, a mining engineer, was arraigned after evading arrest for non-payment of spousal and child support for three years. Following the funeral her body was taken to a crematory in New Jersey.〔("Funeral Halted as Woman Hales Husband to Court." ) ''Reading Eagle, March 15, 1934, p. 28.〕 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「Ruth Payne Burgess」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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