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<p>[QUOTE="gimbler-dave, post: 310567, member: 313"]Thanks Debora! T.W. was the husband according to askART. That clears up one question I had, whether she would be listed under Sturgis in the Mechanics' Institute list of the artists that exhibited that year. I would think so, since she was using Sturgis on the actual art in 1886. I will have to go through the lists again.</p><p><br /></p><p>For anyone curious, the index to the Mechanics' Institute reports covering the late 1800's is here: <a href="https://archive.org/details/mechanicsinstitutesf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/mechanicsinstitutesf" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/mechanicsinstitutesf</a></p><p>There are 30 years available, and each report can be downloaded. Each has a financial report, list of all the categories of exhibits, list of the exhibitors, and reports on the winners. It is not just the winners, so I am a bit stumped as to why Sturgis is not listed -- I am hoping to find the title of the work she exhibited, and maybe be able to compare it with the work above, to provide more support for my guess that it is the same artist.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gimbler-dave, post: 310567, member: 313"]Thanks Debora! T.W. was the husband according to askART. That clears up one question I had, whether she would be listed under Sturgis in the Mechanics' Institute list of the artists that exhibited that year. I would think so, since she was using Sturgis on the actual art in 1886. I will have to go through the lists again. For anyone curious, the index to the Mechanics' Institute reports covering the late 1800's is here: [URL]https://archive.org/details/mechanicsinstitutesf[/URL] There are 30 years available, and each report can be downloaded. Each has a financial report, list of all the categories of exhibits, list of the exhibitors, and reports on the winners. It is not just the winners, so I am a bit stumped as to why Sturgis is not listed -- I am hoping to find the title of the work she exhibited, and maybe be able to compare it with the work above, to provide more support for my guess that it is the same artist.[/QUOTE]
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