Margaret Ferguson Winner (1866 - December 21, 1937) was an illustrator, portrait painter, and miniaturist.[1][2][3]
She was born and raised in Philadelphia and held a Fellowship at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.[4] Musical composer Septimus Winner was her father.[5]
As a painter, she completed 13 portraits for Dickinson College.[5] The paintings she did of Dickinson presidents hung in Old West and Bosler Hall.[6]
She painted a portrait of John Kirk McCurdy, a Rough Rider, that is part of the permanent collection at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C.[7][8] She painted Supreme Court Justice Roger Brooke Taney, posthumously,[5] and also painted a portrait of Dr. William Ruoff.[9]
She lived at 1706 North 16th Street.[5]
Her photograph appears in the book Septimus Winner: Two Lives in Music.[10] She was a member of the Art Alliance and Plastic Club.[4]
Books she illustrated edit
- Her Very Best (1901) by Amy E. Blanchard[11]
- Dearie, Dot, and the Dog (1904) by Julie M. Lippmann
- Mistress Moppet (1904) by Annie M. Barnes[12]
References edit
- ^ "MISS M. F. WINNER, PORTRAIT PAINTER; Philadelphia Artist Is Dead at 71--Daughter of Writer of Well-Known Songs". The New York Times. December 22, 1937.
- ^ "Arts Magazine". Art Digest Incorporated. May 15, 1937 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Arts Magazine". Art Digest Incorporated. June 22, 1937 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b "1937-12-22 - Mgt Winner d". December 22, 1937. p. 4 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c d "1937-12-22 - Mgt Winner d". December 22, 1937. p. 4 – via Philadelphia Inquirer at newspapers.com.
- ^ http://archives.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/files-dmagazine/DCAM_015_3_0.pdf Dickinson Alumnus February 1938, Necrology page 24
- ^ "John Kirk McCurdy". Smithsonian Institution.
- ^ Barnes, Mark (September 13, 2010). The Spanish-American War and Philippine Insurrection, 1898-1902: An Annotated Bibliography. Routledge. ISBN 9781136936982 – via Google Books.
- ^ Philadelphia, Art Club of (May 15, 1900). "Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture". Morris Press – via pages 21 and 99.
- ^ Remson, Michael (May 15, 2002). Septimus Winner: Two Lives in Music. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810845404 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Image 9 of Her very best, Library of Congress".
- ^ Shaw, Albert (May 15, 1904). "The American Monthly Review of Reviews". Review of Reviews – via Google Books.
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