Susie M. Barstow (1836-1923)
- Susie M. Barstow (1836-1923)
- Squirrel in a Woodland Nook
- Oil on panel
- 7 ½ x 5 ½ inches
- Estate of the Artist
- Susie M. Barstow is known for her landscapes executed in the Hudson River School style in the last half of the nineteenth century. She was born in New York to Samuel Barstow, a successful tea merchant.
- Barstow attended Rutgers’ Female Institute in New York, the first college for women in New York. After graduating in 1853, she began exhibiting her still-life and landscape paintings at the National Academy of Design (1858-91) and the Pennsylvania Academy annuals (1867-69). However, she was most active in Brooklyn, exhibiting more than 75 artworks at the Brooklyn Art Association between 1877-86. In addition to painting, Barstow worked as a secretary and art
- teacher at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences until at least 1910.
