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Sarah Gooll Putnam (c. 1851–1912) was an American painter. From a prominent Boston family, she was known for her portraits and landscapes.


Biography

Putnam was born in about 1851 in
Boston, Massachusetts Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ...
. As a young girl she made sketches and later worked in oils and watercolors. She studied art in New York, Munich, and Holland, and painted portraits of family, friends, and other Bostonians of her social standing. She studied with Helen M. Knowlton, Louisa Crowninshield Bacon, and George Chickering Munzig before enrolling in the first class of students at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1877. Putnam received her first portrait commission in 1883 and went on to have several one-woman shows, and was included in group shows at the
St. Botolph Club The St. Botolph Club is a gentlemen's club, private social club in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1880 by a group including many artists. Its name is derived from the English saint Botolph of Thorney. Among the club's other activities in its q ...
, the Boston Art Club and the
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. Putnam exhibited her work at the 1893
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in Chicago, Illinois. Putnam never married and she died in 1912 in
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.


Diaries

Sarah Gooll Putnam kept a consistent collection of diaries beginning at age nine (November 26, 1860). The documents are a record of her career as a portrait painter, her extensive travels, and significant historic moments. When she was fourteen,
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was assassinated on April 14, 1865. Though primarily living in Boston, Massachusetts, she recorded the shock and sadness of hearing about the Lincoln assassination.


Legacy

Putnam's diaries from 1860 to 1912 are in the
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. Several of her portraits are in
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.


Gallery

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Amy Lowell Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school. She posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. Life Amy Lowell was born on February 9, 1874, in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughte ...
'', by Sarah Gooll Putnam, nd File:Sarah Gooll Putnam - Edward Charles Pickering.jpg, ''Portrait of
Edward Charles Pickering Edward Charles Pickering (July 19, 1846 – February 3, 1919) was an American astronomer and physicist and the older brother of William Henry Pickering. Along with Carl Vogel, Pickering discovered the first spectroscopic binary stars. He wrote ' ...
'', by Sarah Gooll Putnam, nd File:Sarah Gooll Putnam - Francis Boott.jpg, ''Portrait of
Francis Boott Francis Boott (26 September 1792 – 25 December 1863) was an American physician and botanist who was resident in Great Britain from 1820. Biography Boott was born in Boston, Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, the brother of Kirk Boott, ...
'', by Sarah Gooll Putnam, nd File:Sarah Gooll Putnam - Henry Pickering Bowditch.jpg, ''Portrait of
Henry Pickering Bowditch Henry Pickering Bowditch (April 4, 1840 – March 13, 1911) was an American soldier, physician, physiologist, and dean of the Harvard Medical School. Following his teacher Carl Ludwig, he promoted the training of medical practitioners in a co ...
'', by Sarah Gooll Putnam, nd


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