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Emma Jane Cady
Ser Amantio di Nicolao: added Category:Painters from New York (state) using HotCat
'''Emma Jane Cady''' (1854-1933) was an [[United States|American]] painter known for her [[theorem painting]]s.
Cady was a native of [[East Chatham, New York|East Chatham]], [[New York (state)|New York]], the oldest of three children of farmer Norman J. Cady. Her family was initially from [[Connecticut]], but migrated to [[Columbia County, New York|Columbia County]] in the middle of the eighteenth century. She was remembered by neighbors and family members as beautiful, strong-willed, and active; none remembered her artistic endeavors. Census records give her occupation as "housework". Cady remained unmarried throughout her life. After the deaths of her parents she moved in with a nephew; around 1920 she moved again, to [[Grass Lake, Michigan|Grass Lake]], [[Michigan]], where she lived with her sister and sister's family until dying.<ref name="Wertkin2004"></ref>
Cady's work is unusual, as theorem painting was long past its popularity when she began practicing the art.<ref name="auto"></ref> Her work was discovered in the 1930s by folk art collectors [[J. Stuart Halladay]] and [[Herrell George Thomas]], who assumed that she was another person of the same name who lived in [[New Lebanon, New York|New Lebanon]], New York around 1820, when theorem painting was at its most popular. Research performed in 1978 by [[Ruth Piwonka]] and Roderick H. Blackburn revealed her true identity. Four watercolors and one oil on canvas by the artist are known; two of the former are still-life depictions of glass compotes, while the other two are images of doves sitting on a branch.<ref name="Wertkin2004"/> One of these, produced for her brother and sister-in-law on the birth of their eldest son in 1890, is her only signed and dated work.<ref name="auto1"></ref> Cady was evidently a master of the theorem technique; besides using both transparent and opaque watercolor paints, she applied [[mica]] flecks to her depictions of glass and used a textured cloth to spread powder over her stencils, a technique known as "pouncing". Her works are considered among the finest examples of theorem painting known.<ref name="Wertkin2004"/> She is one of the few theorem artists known to have signed her work.<ref></ref>
One of Cady's still-life paintings, ''Fruit in Glass Compote'' of c. 1895, is in the collection of the [[American Folk Art Museum]], to which it was donated by [[Ralph Esmerian]].<ref name="auto"/> A nearly identical piece, dated c. 1890, is owned by the [[Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum]].<ref name="auto1"/>
==References==
[[Category:1854 births]]
[[Category:1933 deaths]]
[[Category:American women painters]]
[[Category:19th-century American painters]]
[[Category:19th-century American women artists]]
[[Category:People from Columbia County, New York]]
[[Category:Painters from New York (state)]]
Cady was a native of [[East Chatham, New York|East Chatham]], [[New York (state)|New York]], the oldest of three children of farmer Norman J. Cady. Her family was initially from [[Connecticut]], but migrated to [[Columbia County, New York|Columbia County]] in the middle of the eighteenth century. She was remembered by neighbors and family members as beautiful, strong-willed, and active; none remembered her artistic endeavors. Census records give her occupation as "housework". Cady remained unmarried throughout her life. After the deaths of her parents she moved in with a nephew; around 1920 she moved again, to [[Grass Lake, Michigan|Grass Lake]], [[Michigan]], where she lived with her sister and sister's family until dying.<ref name="Wertkin2004"></ref>
Cady's work is unusual, as theorem painting was long past its popularity when she began practicing the art.<ref name="auto"></ref> Her work was discovered in the 1930s by folk art collectors [[J. Stuart Halladay]] and [[Herrell George Thomas]], who assumed that she was another person of the same name who lived in [[New Lebanon, New York|New Lebanon]], New York around 1820, when theorem painting was at its most popular. Research performed in 1978 by [[Ruth Piwonka]] and Roderick H. Blackburn revealed her true identity. Four watercolors and one oil on canvas by the artist are known; two of the former are still-life depictions of glass compotes, while the other two are images of doves sitting on a branch.<ref name="Wertkin2004"/> One of these, produced for her brother and sister-in-law on the birth of their eldest son in 1890, is her only signed and dated work.<ref name="auto1"></ref> Cady was evidently a master of the theorem technique; besides using both transparent and opaque watercolor paints, she applied [[mica]] flecks to her depictions of glass and used a textured cloth to spread powder over her stencils, a technique known as "pouncing". Her works are considered among the finest examples of theorem painting known.<ref name="Wertkin2004"/> She is one of the few theorem artists known to have signed her work.<ref></ref>
One of Cady's still-life paintings, ''Fruit in Glass Compote'' of c. 1895, is in the collection of the [[American Folk Art Museum]], to which it was donated by [[Ralph Esmerian]].<ref name="auto"/> A nearly identical piece, dated c. 1890, is owned by the [[Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum]].<ref name="auto1"/>
==References==
[[Category:1854 births]]
[[Category:1933 deaths]]
[[Category:American women painters]]
[[Category:19th-century American painters]]
[[Category:19th-century American women artists]]
[[Category:People from Columbia County, New York]]
[[Category:Painters from New York (state)]]
March 28, 2019 at 01:30PM
