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and other exhibitions. She was an active contributor to the exhibitions of the
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Art work : women artists and democracy in mid-nineteenth-century New York
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became an artist and naturalist. After living in Boston, the family moved to
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Thought: American Works on Paper from a Private Collection
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Sellars Collection of Art by American Women in
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587:"A Painter of Angels Became the Father of Camouflage"
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American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent
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946:Louis Prang, color lithographer, giant of a man
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671:. Massachusetts Pub. Co. 1898. p. 253.
532:"Botanical paintings of Ellen Thayer Fisher"
358:(1878) appeared in the 2015–2016 exhibition
425:. Yale University Press. pp. 155–157.
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758:Life in letters of Richard T. Fisher
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1193:19th-century American women artists
117:Blackberries by Ellen Thayer Fisher
1132:Traditional Fine Arts Organization
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1101:United States Department of State
564:. Oswego: R.J. Oliphant. p.
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348:Nesting Bird in Apple Blossoms
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300:World's Columbian Exposition
278:American Water Color Society
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1218:20th-century women painters
1173:American women illustrators
1097:"Ellen Thayer Fisher (Bio)"
897:The Heckscher Museum of Art
134:American Watercolor Society
122:Ellen "Nelly" Thayer Fisher
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950:. Century House. pp.
270:National Academy of Design
130:National Academy of Design
728:"Richard Thornton Fisher"
692:Masten, April F. (2008).
557:Thayer, Bezaleel (1874).
172:. By 1867, they moved to
637:"Chromolithograph Magic"
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189:Lanesboro, Massachusetts
64:Lanesboro, Massachusetts
1208:American watercolorists
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472:Petteys, Chris (1985).
316:New York Public Library
312:Heckscher Museum of Art
259:Abbott Handerson Thayer
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160:. Her younger brother,
302:in Chicago, Illinois.
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274:Pennsylvania Academy
251:Magnolia grandiflora
182:William Wallace Fenn
170:Keene, New Hampshire
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338:(1996–1997) at the
23:Ellen Thayer Fisher
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1018:"Fisher, Ellen T."
824:The New York Times
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538:. 8 September 2013
324:Huntington Library
237:Sumac and Milkweed
174:Brooklyn, New York
166:Woodstock, Vermont
158:American Civil War
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