Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell
Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell (March 20, 1845 – March 10, 1888) was an American writer, historian, and expert on ancient art. Mitchell was one of the first Americans to write and publish a book on classical sculpture and was one of the first women to study the field of classical archaeology.[1]
Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell | |
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 Syria, 1867. Age 22 | |
| Born | Lucy Myers Wright March 20, 1845 |
| Died | March 10, 1888 (aged 42) |
| Occupation | Classical archaeologist, historian, author |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Mt. Holyoke College (left 1864, no degree) |
| Influences | Johannes Overbeck |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Art Institute of Chicago (advisor) Imperial German Archaeological Institute (1884) |
| Notable works | A History of Ancient Sculpture (1883) |
Mitchell was born in Urumiah, Persia, and was the daughter of Church of the East missionary and oriental scholar Austin Hazen Wright, and the sister of classical scholar, John Henry Wright. She attended Mount Holyoke College and later moved to Germany with her husband, artist Samuel S. Mitchell, before returning to Massachusetts.[1]
Her two-volume, 766 page work, A History of Ancient Sculpture, begins with its origins in Ancient Egypt in the first volume, and includes Selections of Ancient Sculpture, a second volume of plates.[2] Classical archaeologist Stephen L. Dyson calls Mitchell’s work "the first general American text on ancient art".[3]
Bibliography
See also
Notes
- Dyson, Stephen. "Lucy Wright Mitchell". Breaking Ground: Women in Old World Archaeology. Brown University. Retrieved December 25, 2021.
- "Ancient Sculpture" (PDF), The New York Times, pp. BR431, 1905-07-01.
- Dyson, Stephen L. (1998). Ancient Marbles to American Shores: Classical Archaeology in the United States. University of Pennsylvania Press, p. 106. ISBN 0-8122-3446-4.
References
- Dyson, Stephen L. "Lucy Wright Mitchell, 1845-1888" (PDF), University at Buffalo. Retrieved December 25, 2021.
- Teng, Wen Li. (2020). "Grant Park and the Globe: Lucy Mitchell, Bessie Bennett, and the Art Institute of Chicago." The Virginia Tech Undergraduate Historical Review. 9: pp. 17–27. doi:10.21061/vtuhr.v9i0.3