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Northampton mulberry groves (family homes were at 57 and 81 Bridge Street and 78 Pomeroy
Terrace). The sisters spent early years in Savannah, where Henry ran a store and briefly manufactured Confederate uniforms. During the Civil War, the family fled to Montreal but remained financially comfortable; they studied at Bute House, and portraits of them by the society photographer
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praised her skill at rendering “every delicate shade imaginable” and observed that Susie “has a genius for figure drawing and character.” Susie worked mainly in watercolor and pen and ink, specializing in scenes of Greek mythology and rural
Massachusetts. She exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago
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Northampton owns Lathrop family letters, paintings, sketches, Bessie's tooled leather strip, photos including images of Bessie's carvings, a painted wood Dachshund made by a Clarke student, and extensive files about the sisters' careers. Northampton's Forbes Library also has Lathrop family
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described her furniture as evidence that her “hand is sure and her eye true." The sisters held group shows and intellectual salons at their studio in downtown
Northampton (Bernard Berenson lectured there in 1894), which was draped with fishnets and packed with paintings, prints, embroideries,
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Lathrop (1811–1888), a dry-goods merchant, and Clara Stebbins Lathrop (1823–1908), a philanthropist who founded a home for aged and invalid women in Northampton. The girls’ grandfather Daniel Stebbins was a physician and entrepreneur who raised silkworms in
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of New York, worked in oil, watercolor and pastel and was known for portraits, studies of flowers and views of Cape Cod, Holland, Cornwall, Brittany and Venice. (Her works are usually signed C. W. Lathrop.) She exhibited at venues including the Paris Salon (1891), 1893
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Montreal. The girls’ brother Dwight (1851–1887), who became a railroad cashier in New York, stole from the company and ended up in Sing Sing prison. The sisters all studied at Smith College. Clara and Susie also trained at the
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Rydingsvard's woodcarving classes. The sisters traveled and painted along Cape Cod and eastern Canada and, in Europe, from Norway to Venice. They gave private art lessons and taught at Smith (their students included
198:(1857–1907). In June 1907, Clara died suddenly of meningitis. After her death, Bessie and Susie continued teaching but largely stopped exhibiting artwork. Institutions that own Lathrop pieces include the
140:(1892, 1898), Art Association of Indianapolis (1892), Gill's Art Galleries in Springfield (1889, 1890), Woman's Art Club (1892, 1893, 1894), National Academy of Design (1892, 1893), the
165:(1889), American Water Color Society (1889, 1892, 1893), Boston Art Club (1890, 1891) and Art Club of Philadelphia (1892). She illustrated M. Helen Beckwith's children's book,
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contributor Eve M. Kahn spoke about the sisters' artistic salon, travels, exhibitions, and teaching posts, among other topics.
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