Beatrice Edgerly Etching. Mystic, Connecticut. Tucson

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An Etching by B. E. Edgerly

(Beatrice Edna MacPherson Edgerly)

Circa Early 20th Century

An Artist of Mystic, Connecticut, and Tucson, Arizona

Image Size: 110 x 125 mm (4-5/16 x 5 inches)

Sheet Size: 278 x 212 mm (8-3/8 x 11 inches)

Fishing Boat in Harbor (Presemedly a View of Mystic, Connecticut)

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Above: B. E. Edgerly  (Beatrice Edna Edgerly)

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Above:  View of the Full Sheet  (The Reverse Side is Blank)

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Beatrice Edna MacPherson (born 1898 - died 1973) was an American artist and educator.

She was born Beatrice Edna Edgerly, and grew up in Washington D. C.  Her parents were Albert Webster Edgerly and Edna Reid Boyts.  

Beatrice studied at Gunston Hall.  At age 11 she was admitted to the Corcoran School of Art as the youngest student to study there. She also studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

In 1922 Edna married John Havard MacPherson to become Beatrice Edna Macpherson.

Beatrice and her husband John Havard MacPherson helped to create the Mystic Art Association in Mystic, Connecticut, where thy had studios. They also had studios in Bushkill, Pennsylvania.

Beatrice and her husband helped create the Southern Arizona School of Art in 1947, in Tucson, Arizona.  She also was an art critic for the Arizona Daily Star newspaper in the 1950s.

Beatrice's sister was Gladys Edgerly Bates, the well-known American sculptor.

Note:  I am not certain if this is the same Beatrice Edgerly who was one of the "99s" the women's flying club cofounded by Amelia Earhart.  In 1955 a Beatrice Edgerly Macpherson flew in the Longbeach to Springfield, Massachusetts airplane race, with co-pilot Alberta Nicholson.

From a Scrapbook Assembled by Publisher Robert Barrie of Philadelphia:

This etching in a scrapbook assembled by Philadelphia publisher Robert Barrie in the late 1800s and early 1900s. (The last dated item in the scrapbook is 1937, with most items dated in the first decade of the 1900s.)

Note: I recently offered on Ebay another scrapbook by Robert Barrie, about yachting. I sold that yaching scrapbook complete as I purchased it. The items I offer here comes from a second Robert Barrie scrapbook, whose pages I am selling individually, because of the diversity of items in this second scrapbook. I purchased these scrapbooks at an estate auction here in Pennsylvania.

This Robert Barrie was the son of publisher George Barrie, a Scottish-American immigrant who founded the Philadelphia publishing house Barrie and Sons. George Barrie was born in Glasgow, Scotland. Here in Philadelphia, George Barrie was first employed by the publisher J. B. Lippincott, before starting his own publishing company in 1873, with the assistance of his sons, this Robert Barrie and George Barrie Jr.

The Barrie publishing house was very successful, and was internationally known as a publisher of fine art works, prints, and books. The Barrie publisher received medals at all the leading exhibitions, including the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, the 1889 expo in Paris, in 1893 at Chicago, and in 1900 at Paris.

Condition:  The paper has a light trace of foxing in the top and bottom margins.  The top edge of the paper has a tiny, quarter-inch tear. The reverse side of the paper is blank. The paper is card-stock paper.

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