15 Facts About Alice Boughton

Alice Boughton was an early 20th-century American photographer known for her photographs of many literary and theatrical figures of her time.

Alice Boughton was a Fellow of Alfred Stieglitz's Photo-Secession, a circle of photographers whose artistic efforts succeeded in raising photography to a fine art form.

Alice Boughton was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 14 May 1866.

Alice Boughton's parents were Frances Ayres and William H Boughton, a lawyer in New York.

Alice Boughton studied photography and became a well known portrait photographer in New York by the early 1900s.

From at least 1920 until her death, Boughton shared her residences with artist and art teacher Ida C Haskell.

Kasebier employed her an assistant in her studio, most likely at the same time Alice Boughton was studying at Pratt.

Around 1901, Alice Boughton studied art in Rome and photography in Paris, where she worked in Kasebier's summer studio.

Alice Boughton won an honorable mention for her work at the Turin International Decorative and Fine Arts Exhibition in 1902.

Alice Boughton did many landscapes in this country and Europe including the Rockefeller estate Kykuit at Pocantico Hills, New York.

Alice Boughton's portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson was an inspiration for John Singer Sargent's own portrait of the writer.

In 1931, Alice Boughton closed her studio and discarded thousands of prints.

Alice Boughton moved permanently to the home in Brookhaven, Long Island, that she shared with Haskell.

Alice Boughton's works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the British National Portrait Gallery, the George Eastman Museum, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Hood Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Princeton University Art Museum, and others.

Alice Boughton's work was published in Camera Work in 1909.