Essays and the illustrated art of a leading woman Impressionist of the late 19th Century and first half of the 20th Century, Euphemia Charlton Fortune. Born with a cleft palate in Sausalito, California, she survived the San Francisco earthquake and fire and went to to win a silver medal from the Paris Salons, a gold medal for design from the American Institute of Architects, and a medal from the Pope for interior church design across the United States. As befits the idea (not always true) of artists work receiving true monetary recognition only after their deaths, a painting by Fortune of the Monterey, California waterfront sold at auction for $1.8-million in December of 2007.
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Essays and the illustrated art of a leading woman Impressionist of the late 19th Century and first half of the 20th Century, Euphemia Charlton Fortune. Born with a cleft palate in Sausalito, California, she survived the San Francisco earthquake and fire and went to to win a silver medal from the Paris Salons, a gold medal for design from the American Institute of Architects, and a medal from the Pope for interior church design across the United States. As befits the idea (not always true) of artists work receiving true monetary recognition only after their deaths, a painting by Fortune of the Monterey, California waterfront sold at auction for $1.8-million in December of 2007.
I was co-author of this book, which was edited by Janet Howell, with William H. Gerdts, Penny Perlmutter and Tina Santi Flaherty. I'm writing a play on Fortune, a woman who, in addition to being supremely gifted, was also courageous.