Bessie Marsh Brewer

{{Short description|Canadian printmaker, painter, sculptor and teacher (1884–1952)}}

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| birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada

| death_date = {{Death year and age|1952|1884}}

| death_place = New York City, United States

| nationality = Canadian-American

| education = New York School of Applied Design for Women, Art Students League of New York

| field = Painter, Printmaker

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Bessie Marsh Brewer (1884–1952) was a Canadian-American printmaker, painter, sculptor and teacher. She studied at the New York School of Applied Design for Women and at the Art Students League with Robert Henri and John Sloan.Petteys, Chris, [https://books.google.com/books?id=aIlUAAAAMAAJ Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900], G.K. Hall & Co, Boston, Ma, 1985. {{ISBN|978-0-8161-8456-9}}. She illustrated for Century, Phoenix, Collier's, and St. Nicholas magazines.Marian Wardle, American Women Modernists: The Legacy of Robert Henri, 1910–1945, 2005, 183{{cite book|title=Collier's|date=1912|volume=49|publisher=Collier's|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A1wwAQAAMAAJ|pages=2–5|accessdate=2015-03-22}}

She exhibited at the 1913 New York Armory Show where she showed three drawings, The Furnished Room, Curiosity and Putting Her Monday Name on Her Letterbox.[https://books.google.com/books?id=gGIMAQAAIAAJ 1913 Armory Show 50th Anniversary Exhibition, 1963] Henry Street Settlement, NY 1963 Amongst the aforementioned skills, Bessie Marsh Brewer created in the styles of Realism, Representation, and Naturalism.{{cite web|url=http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/search/ArtistKeywords.aspx?artist=112054|title=Bessie Brewer - Artist, Fine Art, Auction Records, Prices, Biography for Bessie Marsh Brewer|publisher=askart.com|accessdate=2015-03-22}}

She was the mother of Sam Pope Brewer, New York Times correspondent whose wife later remarried to Kim Philby.{{cite journal |title=Mrs Bessie Brewer |journal=Daily News |date=1952 |issue=30 Apr 1952, Wed |page=504 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/43466066/obituary_for_bessie_marsh_brewer_aged/ |accessdate=2 February 2020}}