Bessie Marsh Brewer (1884–1952) was a Canadian-American printmaker, painter, sculptor and teacher. She studied at the New York School of Applied Design for Women and at the Art Students League with Robert Henri and John Sloan.Petteys, Chris, Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900, G.K. Hall & Co, Boston, Ma, 1985. . She illustrated for Century, Phoenix, Collier's, and St. Nicholas magazines.Marian Wardle, American Women Modernists: The Legacy of Robert Henri, 1910–1945, 2005, 183
She exhibited at the 1913 New York Armory Show where she showed three drawings, The Furnished Room, Curiosity and Putting Her Monday Name on Her Letterbox.1913 Armory Show 50th Anniversary Exhibition, 1963 Henry Street Settlement, NY 1963 Amongst the aforementioned skills, Bessie Marsh Brewer created in the styles of Realism, Representation, and Naturalism.
She was the mother of Sam Pope Brewer, New York Times correspondent whose wife later remarried to Kim Philby.
Awards New York School of Applied Design for Women in commercial art (1922).
See also List of artists in the Armory Show
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