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Mabel Eleanor Elwes (3 August 1878 – 18 November 1950)[1] was an artist, designer, and the mother of writer May Sarton.[2]
Early life
[edit]Eleanor Mabel Elwes (known as Mabel) was born in Thornton Heath, London, the daughter of Gervase Elwes, a civil engineer, and Eleanor Cole (born 1848).[1][3] At the time of her birth, her parents were not legally married.[3] Her mother was skilled in needlework, embroidery, and woodcarving.[3] Mabel had one brother, Hugh.[3] The family attended South Place Ethical Society.[3]
Elwes took art classes at Kensington High School, and later studied French at the Institut Charles de Kerchove in Ghent.[3] She also attended the Blackheath School of Art, where in 1903 she received the Sketch Club prize.[3] The following year, Elwes moved to Ghent, and from 1915 attends courses at the Académie des Beaux-Arts.[3]
She married Belgian historian George Sarton in 1911.[4] The couple's daughter, Eleanore Marie Sarton, was born in Wondelgem on 3 May 1912.[4] In 1914, the family fled Belgium, first for England, before settling in the United States in 1915.[4][5] They settled in Boston, Massachusetts.[5]
Career
[edit]Elwes became a painter of miniatures, a designer of modern furniture and a designer of widely marketed embroidered fabrics.[1] Mabel Sarton's designs and creations can be found in collections including the Smithsonian Institution and the New York Public Library.[3]
Buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Mabel Eleanor (Sarton) Elwes - Biography". www.askart.com. Retrieved 2025-01-12.
- ^ "archives.nypl.org -- Eleanor Mabel Sarton collection of papers". archives.nypl.org. Retrieved 2025-01-12.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Pyenson, Lewis (2006-12-31). Passion of George Sarton: A Modern Marriage and its Discipline, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 260). The American Philosophical Society Press. doi:10.70249/9780871693624. ISBN 978-0-87169-362-4.
- ^ a b c "A Cabinet of Surprises | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum". www.cooperhewitt.org. 2013-09-16. Retrieved 2025-01-12.
- ^ a b "Guide to the May Sarton Collection 1950-1954". www.lib.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2025-01-12.
- ^ "Eleanor Mabel Elwes Sarton (1878-1950)". Find a Grave. Retrieved 2025-01-12.