Nimrod's Wife Grace Gallatin Seton 1907 1st Ed. Women Outdoors Hunting Travel

Description: Stunning illustrations in this beautiful book. Hardcover, clean, tight, very tiny ding to spine (1/32in) FREE SHIPPING WIKIPEDIA: Grace Gallatin was born in Sacramento, California on January 28, 1872. In 1888 she began writing articles for San Francisco newspapers under the pen name of Dorothy Dodge, and in 1892 graduated from Packer Collegiate Institute, in Brooklyn, NY.[2] CareerWriting In 1900, Seton published her first book, A Woman Tenderfoot, which described her trip on horseback through the Rocky Mountains.[3] In 1907 she published the book Nimrod's Wife, a true hunting and travel book set in the Western United States.[4][5] She later organized and directed a women's motor unit to aid soldiers in France during the first World War.[2] During the 1920s and 1930s she visited China, Egypt, Hawaii, India, Indochina, Japan, and South America, and she wrote four books about her travels: A Woman Tenderfoot in Egypt (1923), Chinese Lanterns (1924), Yes, Lady Saheb (1925), and Poison Arrows (1938).[2][6] She also wrote The Singing Traveler (1947), a collection of poems about mysticism and eastern religions.[6] ActivismGrace Gallatin Seton Thompson (1919) As a suffragist, she served as vice-president and later president of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association, from 1910 to 1920.[6] She also worked for women's causes by serving as president of the National League of American Pen Women (1926-1928 and 1930-1932), during which time the number of branches of that organization doubled, and serving as chair of letters of the National Council of Women of the United States (1933-1938).[6] As chair she established the Biblioteca Femina, a collection of volumes by women from all over the world, which was later donated to the Northwestern University Library.[6] She also helped organize an international conference of women writers at the Century of Progress Exposition held in Chicago in 1933, and was a member of the International Council of Women, the Society of Woman Geographers, and the Women's National Republican Club.[6] Seton also belonged to Pen and Brush.[6] She served as president of Pen and Brush from 1898 to 1939.[6] Marriage She was married to Ernest Thompson Seton, one of the founding pioneers of the Boy Scouts of America, and conflicts arose with the Boy Scouts about her suffrage activities and his British citizenship. The citizenship issue arose partly because of his high position within BSA, and because the federal charter James E. West was attempting to obtain for the BSA required its board members to be United States citizens. Ernest drafted his written resignation on January 29, 1915, but he did not send it to BSA until May.[7] Grace had married Ernest in 1896; she separated from him by the late 1920s, and they divorced in 1935.[3] Her daughter Anya Seton, also an author, was born in 1904.[2][8] Death Seton died in Palm Beach, Florida on March 19, 1959.[2] Legacy Some of her papers are held in the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, and some are held at Smith College in the Sophia Smith Collection.[3][2] Works Source:[9] Stone was born in Barnard, Monroe County, New York, on March 2, 1875, the son of William Talmage and Jenny Filer Stone.[1] He attended public school in Rochester and in 1894 moved to Brooklyn to attend Pratt Institute. He initially studied drawing under Ida C. Haskell and in 1895 he was a student of Arthur Wesley Dow and adopted Dow's tonalist style.[2] Stone noted that everything he'd done as an artist he owed to Dow and called him a "born teacher." Stone's technique involved the use of water color over a base drawing in charcoal, applied in simple masses and few colors. This method was ideally suited to the improved methods of reproduction.[3] The Illustrator For two years he was a keeper in the aviary at the Washington Zoo, making drawings and befriending two important zoological illustrators: Charles Livingston Bull and Louis Agassiz Fuertes. By 1900 he'd moved to New York and was active as an independent illustrator, painter and writer, winning widespread recognition for his nature illustrations. His work appeared in Scribner’s Magazine, Century Magazine, Colliers’, Outing, Country Life in America, St. Nicholas, and in the Country Gentleman, as well as in various books. Stone made four trips to Europe visiting France, Belgium, Holland, Germany and England. On his trip to Germany in 1908 he made illustrations for Frederic van Beuren's "Black Forest Pathways" for Scribner's Magazine. In the same issue appeared a story by Walter Pritchard Eaton and Stone immediately wrote to him, suggesting a collaboration.[4] Their works varied widely, including a story of New York harbor,[5] and in 1916, Glacier National Park.[6] There Stone provided artwork for Eaton's railroad-sponsored stories, working from Many-Glaciers Hotel, then recently built by the Great Northern Railroad.[7][8] John Singer Sargent was also painting at Glacier during this season. While in New York he became a member of the Salmagundi Club, exhibiting works there regularly through the 1930s.[9] In 1918 he exhibited with the Society of Independent Artists in Brooklyn, alongside Reynolds Beal, Pablo Picasso, and his mentor Arthur Wesley Dow.[10] The Teacher Stone began teaching at Cornell University as Acting Professor of Drawing in 1920, as Assistant Professor beginning in 1922, as Associate Professor in 1942, and as Associate Professor Emeritus from 1943.[2] He still took time for painting trips. In 1928-29 he took a leave of absence and traveled to California, where he painted in Muir Woods, Deep Springs Valley and Death Valley. Stone exhibited 25 landscapes from this trip at the Stanford University Art Gallery.[11] Some of the work from this trip also appears in a Good Housekeeping story with Alice Adams Means [12] and in his biography. Stone's works from this trip exhibit a higher-key palette and more impressionistic brushwork, much like the California Impressionists of the day. Stone exhibited his works throughout the northeast and had recurring shows at the Stockbridge Casino (alongside the many fine artists of the Boston School), the Arnott Museum in Elmira, New York, beginning in 1929, and in Washington DC at the Arts Club in 1924, [13] and at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in 1943.[14] Stone died in Ithaca, New York, in 1949.

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