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Alice Boughton, ^[1, 2] 1867 - 1943

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  Birth	14 May 1867	Brooklyn (Brooklyn Heights), Kings, NY   [1, 3, 4, 5]
  	[Many sources record her birthdate as 1865. Used here is the date from the New York Passenger Lists, which she herself was likely to have given the agent. Census records place her birthdate about 1865-1966.]
  Gender	Female
  Census	1870	Brooklyn (1st Ward), Kings, NY   [6]
  	She was living with her grandparents and parents.
  Census	1880	Brooklyn (Brooklyn Heights), Kings, NY   [7]
  	She was living with her parents in the household of her grandmother, Amelia Ayers.
  Misc	1902	Turin, Italy   [8]
  	received a Diplomas of Merit at the first International Exposition of Modern Decorative Art
  	The King Victor Emmanuel Prize was won by Alfred Stieglitz's Photo-Secession, of which Alice Boughton was associated. Gertrude Käsebier, her Paris teacher, won a Gold Medal.
  Residence	1916	New York, New York, NY   [9]
  	at 2 East 23rd St.,
  Census	1920	New York, New York, NY   [10]
  	She was a lodger in the household of C. Frances Avery (female, artist, age 40) on 15th Street. Also in the household as a lodger was Ida Haskel, with whom Alice was a lodger in Brookhaven in 1930.
  Residence	1926	New York, New York, NY   [4]
  	at 232 East 15th Street
  	Ida Haskell also gave this as her address.
  Misc	20 Sep 1926	New York, New York, NY   [4]
  	She arrived on the passenger ship La Savoie from Le Havre, France
  	Her traveling companion was Ida Haskell.
  Census	1930	Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [1]
  	She was a lodger in the household of Ida Haskill.
  Residence	Aft 1929	Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [11]
  	at 334 Beaver Dam Road (modern address)
  	It is uncertain when Alice Boughton first started living in this house. Artist and art teacher Ida Haskell (see) was said to have occupied the house from about 1902 until her death in 1932. Ida was at first just a Summer resident, but on her retirement in the late 1920's, it became her permanent home. From at least 1920 onward, Alice Boughton was sharing residences with Ida Haskell, including apartments in New York City. On her retirement from photography, also in the late 1920's, the Brookhaven Hamlet home became her full time residence. Alice Broughton continued to live in the house until her death in 1943. The residence has Brookhaven/South Haven Historic Site ID Br18.2-S.
  Misc	1938  [12, 13]
  	She attended to a young child during the hurricane
  	She is still remembered for traveling to a neighbor's home during the height of the 1938 hurricane and attending to a young child. While, as told here, Mrs. Neenan was a new-born, she was actually about a year old. "There is a story we had from our old friend Sallie Soper Neenan, now of the Blue Mountain Lake area in the Adirondacks, that when she was born, her parents lived in the Tuthill house [Historic Site Br17A]. It was the time of the '38 hurricane. During the storm, Miss Boughton came across the street in the teeth of the gale, to make sure the young family was alright." [Pictures of the destruction around the Soper homestead from the storm can be seen here (image 228).]
  Occupation	photographer  [1, 2, 10, 14, 15, 16]
  	Alice Boughton was best known as a photographer. She studied painting in Paris and Rome. She was an assistant in Gertrude Kasebier's studio; and with Gertrude, was a member of Photo-Secession (a group of photographers whose purpose was the elevation of photography to a fine art). She opened her own portrait studio in New York in 1890, and her subjects were prominent literary and theatrical figures. Her studies of children are also noteworthy, and she is remembered for her photographs of female nudes in allegorical or natural settings. Her studio, in the Bartholdi Building on E. 23rd St. opposite Madison Square*, remained open for forty years. Her photographs were published in Camera Work in 1909. In 1928 a collection of her portraits, Photographing the Famous, was published by Avondale Press. The foreword to this book was written by James L. Ford (see), her Brookhaven Hamlet neighbor at the time. Her work is said to be in the permanent collections of several major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. She also published Household Arts and School Lunches (1916) reprint by Kessinger Publishing (Oct 2007) * Based on evidence from a envelope addressed to Miss Boughton by William Butler Yates in 1904, she also may have had a studio at 312 Madison Ave. (between East 41st and 42nd Streets), New York City
  Residence	1939	Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [11, 17]
  	Address: 334 Beaver Dam Road
  Died	21 Jun 1943	Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [1, 5, 18]
  Notes	[While some art information web sites indicate that she had two children, I have found no documentation that she had any children or that she was ever legally married. She was, however, known to have been a close companion to Ida Haskell; the relationship is shown here as spousal.]
  Person ID	I9382	Brookhaven & South Haven Hamlets
  Last Modified	24 Jul 2015

  
  

  Father	William H. Boughton, >,   b. 1836, Binghamton, Broome, NY ,   d. 7 Feb 1897, Brooklyn, Kings, NY
  Mother	Frances Ayers, >,   b. Between 1842 and 1845, NY ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F3435	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Ida Haskell, ^,   b. 24 Apr 1861, Cumberland, CA ,   d. 28 Sep 1932, Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY
  Family ID	F4849	Group Sheet

  
  

• Photos		Alice Boughton Painting While Alice Boughton was best known as a photographer, she was also trained as a painter. This picture is of the northwest corner of Alice Boughton and Ida Haskell's Brookhaven Hamlet, NY, home on Beaver Dam Road.
  		Alice Boughton Painting of Miller House Another example of a painting by Alice Boughton is of the Miller House on Fire Place Neck Rd., Brookhaven Hamlet, NY
  		Alice Boughton and Child, Summerville, Cape Cod .. child is unidentified.

  
  

  Documents		Haskell-Phillips House, Brookhaven, NY From the early 20th century until her death in 1932, Ida Haskell had a home in Brookhaven Hamlet, Long Island, NY. At first it was just a Summer residence, but it became her permanent residence on her retirement in the late 1920's. During much of this time, it was shared with the photographer Alice Boughton, and continued to be Boughton's home until she died in 1943.
  		Alice Boughton Obituary Patchogue NY Advance, 23 June 1943
  		Alice Boughton - Examples of her work at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
  		Alice Boughton .. her entry in Wikipedia.com
  		Brookhaven's Cultural Heritage 1890-1930 .. Presentation given to the South Bay Artists Association 19 April 2009.
  		Feminine Artists of NY Planning to Adopt Scores of French War Orphans
  		The Latin Quarter Waif Who Has Twenty-Five "Mothers .. P'tit Gilbert's Soldier father was killed and his mother died of grief--then twenty-five American girl artists and writers formed a "God-mother Group" to provide for the little fellow's future -- other group's wish for war babies.

  
  

• Sources

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