Hannah Tempest Jenkins

Hannah Tempest Jenkins
Born
Hannah Tempest

(1854-03-07)March 7, 1854
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
DiedSeptember 27, 1927(1927-09-27) (aged 73)
Claremont, California
Known forPainting
Spouse
John H. Jenkins
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(m. 1872, died)​

Hannah Tempest Jenkins (1855–1927) was an American painter and educator. She taught at Pomona College and founded The Rembrandt Club of Pomona College and Claremont, an art appreciation society that still exists.

Biography

Jenkins (née Tempest) was born on March 7, 1854, in Philadelphia. She married John H. Jenkins in 1872.[1] After his early death she began her art career.[2] She studied in Philadelphia at the Spring Garden Institute, the School of Industrial Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She also studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, and with Takeuchi Seihō in Kyoto. Her teachers in included William Merritt Chase, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, Tony Robert-Fleury Cecilia Beaux, and Robert Vonnoh.[3]

Jenkins exhibited at the Paris Salon, the National Academy of Design, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.[1] She also exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois[4] as well as the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition in 1909 in Seattle, Washington.[3]

She taught art and art history at Pomona College in Claremont, California, from 1905 to 1926.[5] She helped establish the Art Department at Pomona[5] and in 1905 she founded The Rembrandt Club of Pomona College and Claremont to encourage the study of art at the college.[6]

Jenkins died on September 27, 1927,[1] in Claremont.[3]

Legacy

Jenkins left her art collection to Claremont College.[1] In 2008 Jenkins' work was included in the exhibition First Generation: Art in Claremont, 1907-1957 at the Claremont Museum of Art.[7]

  • A Meeting at the Mission San Juan Capistrano
    A Meeting at the Mission San Juan Capistrano
  • Jenkins' art class, Holmes Hall, c. 1905
    Jenkins' art class, Holmes Hall, c. 1905

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Hannah Tempest Jenkins". AskArt. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
  2. ^ "Hannah Tempest Jenkins". Pomona College Museum of Art. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
  3. ^ a b c "The biography of Hannah Tempest Jenkins". Artprice. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
  4. ^ Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 4 September 2018.
  5. ^ a b "Art History". Pomona College. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
  6. ^ "History". The Rembrandt Club. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
  7. ^ "First Generation: Art in Claremont, 1907-1957". Traditional Fine Arts Organization. Retrieved 4 September 2018.