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When asked to provide biographical information for an exhibition of her photographs in 1900, Sarah Choate Sears (Pl. 1) of Boston wrote simply, "I am interested in artistic things." [1] Sears was too humble about her talents. She became an award-winning painter in watercolor and pastel, an important pictorialist photographer, a supporter of aspiring artists, and a remarkable collector of contemporary art. She was also part of a significant community of gifted women artists that emerged in Boston at the end of the nineteenth century.
Sarah Choate grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the daughter of a distinguished lawyer, Charles Francis Choate (1828-1911), and ...