Born in Topeka, Kansas, Harriot Newhall became noted for her landscapes of wide-ranging subject matter and for Americana genre subjects. She lived primarily in New England where she studied art with Frank Benson and Philip Leslie Hale. She also studied at Cape Cod with Charles Hawthorne. Her most influential instruction came from Edmund Tarbell in Boston.

She traveled extensively in Europe and completed and exhibited many paintings from these trips. Her landscape work can be divided into several categories: Boston street scenes, and views from Brittany, Belgium, Northern France, England and Venice.

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Paul Sternberg, Sr., Art by American Women...