Harriet Foster Beecher

Portrait and landscape painter. Born in Indiana in 1854. Harriet Foster was raised in South bend and educated at St Mary's academy there. After moving to San Francisco in the 1870's she studied at the School of Design. In 1881 she married Captain Herbert F. Beecher and moved to Washington. Although Seattle and Port Townsend were her homes after that time, she made many trips to CA to visit her mother and daughter and exhibit with the SF art Association. I 1915 she was one of the very few women artists to selected to serve on the PPIE Advisory Committee for the West. Her works are charaterized by a loose and impressionistic style; her subject manner included many Washington pioneers and the local indians. Exhibited: World's Columbian Expo, Chicago, 1893,; Mark Hopkins Institute., 1898 (portrait), 1903 (portrait of A.S. Hallidie); SFAA, 1900. Works held: Bancroft Library, UC Berkely.
Bancroft Library; Women artists in the American West; 1860-1960.