Sarah Gooll Putnam Diary
Volume 27, 1 August 1912
The artist Sarah Gooll Putnam kept a diary, complete with many sketches, from age 9 until near her death at age 61 in 1912. This entry from 1 August 1902 features a watercolor sketch of "Ritchie's Piazza" in Martha's Vineyard. Born into a wealthy family with old Boston ties, Putnam blazed a trail for professional female artists. She studied in New York, Munich, and Holland and entered the first class of students at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1887. Putnam became a popular and critically-acclaimed portrait artist, painting such prominent Boston figures as poet and critic Amy Lowell, Dr. Henry P. Bowditch, the dean of the Harvard Medical School, and Gen. Charles G. Loring, the director of the Museum of Fine Arts.
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