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1854 McHenry, Illinois - 1955 Pasadena, California. Known for: Portrait, landscape and western theme painting.
Raised and educated in McHenry, Illinois, Clara Belle Owen was a painter who signed her work as C.B. Owen. She began painting portraits while still a teenager and at age 17 did an oil painting,... Read full biography
Raised and educated in McHenry, Illinois, Clara Belle Owen was a painter who signed her work as C.B. Owen. She began painting portraits while still a teenager and at age 17 did an oil painting, Cribbage Players, of her parents, Oliver William and Harriet Holmes Owen. From that time she did... Read full biography
Raised and educated in McHenry, Illinois, Clara Belle Owen was a painter who signed her work as C.B. Owen. She began painting portraits while still a teenager and at age 17 did an oil painting, Cribbage Players, of her parents, Oliver William and Harriet Holmes Owen. From that time she did paintings of other family members and of notable persons such as Lillian Russell, the actress, and Senator John Percival Jones of Nevada. She was largely self taught, although she studied in Chicago with... Read full biography
Raised and educated in McHenry, Illinois, Clara Belle Owen was a painter who signed her work as C.B. Owen. She began painting portraits while still a teenager and at age 17 did an oil painting, Cribbage Players, of her parents, Oliver William and Harriet Holmes Owen. From that time she did paintings of other family members and of notable persons such as Lillian Russell, the actress, and Senator John Percival Jones of Nevada. She was largely self taught, although she studied in Chicago with Susan Hely St. John and in late 1880 went to Europe with her family where she painted in Paris at the Louvre and Luxembourg Museum and Gardens, choosing not to enroll in an atelier. Of being at the museums, she wrote to her mother in Chicago that "The... Read full biography
Raised and educated in McHenry, Illinois, Clara Belle Owen was a painter who signed her work as C.B. Owen. She began painting portraits while still a teenager and at age 17 did an oil painting, Cribbage Players, of her parents, Oliver William and Harriet Holmes Owen. From that time she did paintings of other family members and of notable persons such as Lillian Russell, the actress, and Senator John Percival Jones of Nevada. She was largely self taught, although she studied in Chicago with Susan Hely St. John and in late 1880 went to Europe with her family where she painted in Paris at the Louvre and Luxembourg Museum and Gardens, choosing not to enroll in an atelier. Of being at the museums, she wrote to her mother in Chicago that "The people I saw copying at the Louvre were not doing so wonderfully well. I can do better than they do, I know. " (McCullough) She especi... Read full biography
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