About Henrietta Bromwell
Lived 1859 – 1946 (aged 86). Henrietta Bromwell was an American writer.
Henrietta Bromwell (1859–1946) was an artist, author, and a socialite from Denver. She is known for her landscape paintings and literature. Her mother died in January 1865. The Bromwells moved to Colorado Territory in 1870, and lived near South Platte River near wooded land. He was a legislator, including championing women's right to vote, a jurist, and a mason, writing Restorations of Masonic Geometry and Symbolry. She wrote "Sketching and Painting from Nature", referring to Claude Monet's work. It was published in The Western Club Woman in January 1899. She participated in annual exhibits of the club until 1903.
Her publications include:
In her later years, she donated books, works of art, and other collections to the Denver Public Library and in 1938 to the Colorado Historical Society, now History Colorado. Over the years, she collected Native American artifacts, family photograph albums, scrapbooks, musical instruments and other items that she donated for posterity. The Decorative and Fine Arts Departments of the Colorado Historical Society (History Colorado) hold a number of Henrietta Bromwell's paintings. Eight of her works were shown, including Church in Moonlight, Autumn Day, Wash and Bridge, and Small Denver Scene Near South Platte.
In 2011, her work was included in an exhibition entitled Home Lands: How Women Made the West that included works by Georgia O'Keeffe, Maria Martinez, Virna Haffer, and Laura Gilpin.
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Who was Henrietta Bromwell?
Artist, patron, writer, and publisher
When was Henrietta Bromwell born?
Henrietta Bromwell was born on 13 July 1859 in Charleston.
When did Henrietta Bromwell die?
Henrietta Bromwell died on 8 January 1946 in Denver.
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Henrietta Bromwell was a writer.
What nationality was Henrietta Bromwell?
Henrietta Bromwell was American.
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