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Emily Harris Selinger (1848 - 1927)
Emily Harris Selinger graduated from the Providence (Rhode Island) High
School, then attended the Cooper Institute of Design in New York City. She also
studied with Amalia Rocchi in Florence and Margaret Roosenboom in Holland. She
married the painter, Jean Paul Selinger, in 1882. Emily Selinger was a painter, an
author and poet, who was active in Boston around 1904-1910. In 1882, she went to
Europe for three years, traveling in Germany, Florence, and Venice. She was special
European art correspondent for the Boston Evening Transcript. She painted Venetian
scenes.
On returning to the United States, she settled in a studio and apartment
on Boylston Street in Boston. In 1894, the Selingers moved to the Crawford House as
successors to Frank Shapleigh. Emily painted watercolors and oils of flowers and
fruits. She was instrumental in establishing the Normal Art School in Louisville,
Kentucky, and was a prolific writer of monologues, articles on art, short stories, poems,
and greeting cards. Selinger exhibited at the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics
Association in Boston where she was awarded two silver medals, at the Providence and
Boston Art Clubs, and won first prize at several local and state art shows.
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