 Ellen Louise Axson is primarily known as Ellen Axson Wilson
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Biography from Cornish Colony Museum:
| Born in Savannah, GA. Studied at the Women’s College in Rome and
in New York’s Art Students League under Kenyon Cox, George de Forest
Brush, and J. Alden Weir (1884-1885). She was a member of the
National Association of Women Artists and exhibited in the National
Academy of Design. She married Woodrow Wilson and continued her
interest in art participating in the artists colony in Old Lyme, CT in
1905, spending the summers of 1908-1911 at Old Lyme. When her
husband became President, Ellen asked if they could have a summer place
in Cornish where many of her friends and former teachers lived.
She played an important part in the social, artistic and political life of Cornish the summer and fall of 1913.
She died the next year at the White House. |
Biography from AskART:
| An Impressionist landscape painter, Ellen Louise Axson Wilson was born in Savannah, Georgia, and studied in Rome, Italy at the Women's College and at the Art Students League in New York. She exhibited at the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
She was also a student of Robert Vonnoh, who did a now-famous portrait of her while she and her husband, President Woodrow Wilson, were in residence in Cornish, New Hampshire. There she became a part of the artist colony, and the Wilsons rented Harlakenden, the home of Winston Churchill designed by Charles Platt. The Wilsons were frequent visitors in Cornish with Rose Nichols, the Platts, the Maxfield Parrish family, and other "intelligentsia" and "culturati" of the area.
She died in the White House in Washington DC in 1914. |
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Ellen Axson is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
Cornish Colony
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