Harriet Sartain

Harriet Sartain was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of Henry Sartain and Anna Maria Toby Sartain.{{Cite book |last=Logan |first=Mrs John A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hnIEAAAAYAAJ&dq=Harriet+Sartain&pg=PA757 |title=The Part Taken by Women in American History |date=1912 |publisher=Perry-Nalle Publishing Company |pages=757 |language=en}} Her mother was born in England. Her father was a printer and engraver, as was her grandfather, John Sartain, and her uncle William Sartain.[https://www.pafa.org/sites/default/files/media-assets/MS.033_SartainFamily.pdf Sartain Family Papers], Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.{{Cite web |title=Sartain Family Papers 1650 |url=http://www2.hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/s/Sartain1650.html |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=Historical Society of Pennsylvania}}{{Cite news |date=1900-09-02 |title=The Artists of Philadelphia; A Family of Engravers; The Sartains Who are Famous |pages=32 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111028984/the-artists-of-philadelphia-a-family/ |access-date=2022-10-10 |via=Newspapers.com}} Another uncle, Samuel Sartain, was married to Harriet Judd Sartain (1830–1923), an early woman physician in Philadelphia.Blankenburg, Lucretia L. and Sartain, Paul J.. "Harriet Judd Sartain (1830–1923)". Notable Women of Pennsylvania, edited by Gertrude Bosler Biddle and Sarah Dickinson Lowrie, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016, pp. 171-172. {{Cite news |date=1923-02-09 |title=Dr. Harriet Sartain Dies at Age of 93; was one of Pioneer Women Physicians of Country |pages=1 |work=The Morning Call |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111028910/dr-harriet-sartain-dies-at-age-of-93/ |access-date=2022-10-10 |via=Newspapers.com}} She trained as an artist at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women,{{Cite book |last1=Hoffman |first1=Sharon G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jd5jwS04MJcC&dq=Harriet+Sartain&pg=PA15 |title=Moore College of Art & Design |last2=Mott |first2=Amanda M. |date=2008 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=978-0-7385-5659-8 |pages=15 |language=en}} with further studies at Teachers College, Columbia University.{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=1957-03-06 |title=Harriet Sartain, Artist, Teacher; Ex-Dean of Moore Institute in Philadelphia Dies--Once Aided Swarthmore Unit |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/03/06/archives/harriet-sartain-artist-teacher-exdean-of-moore-institute-in.html |access-date=2022-10-09 |issn=0362-4331}}

Sartain painted landscapes and watercolors,{{Cite book |last=Martinez |first=Katharine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I4phvm-bqDMC&q=Harriet&pg=PA170 |title=Philadelphia's Cultural Landscape: The Sartain Family Legacy |date=2000 |publisher=Temple University Press |isbn=978-1-56639-791-9 |pages=170-171, 178-179 |language=en}} and exhibited her works in Philadelphia, New York, and elsewhere, including at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, and at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904.

Sartain taught art from her own studio, and was director of the art studio at Swarthmore College beginning in 1902.{{Cite book |last=Swarthmore College |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EQTQAAAAMAAJ&dq=Harriet+Sartain&pg=RA3-PA13 |title=Annual Catalogue of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa |date=1900 |publisher=Lippincott |pages=13, 72 |language=en}} She was a founding member of the Plastic Club,{{Cite news |date=1952-03-31 |title=Plastic Club Fete |pages=26 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111028731/plastic-club-fete/ |access-date=2022-10-10 |via=Newspapers.com}} and president of the club from 1913 to 1916.{{Cite web |title=Historical Board Presidents |url=https://www.plasticclub.org/historical-board-presidents |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=The Plastic Club |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |date=1913-03-30 |title=Miss Sartain Raps Cubists, et al., at Plastic Meeting |pages=56 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111029537/miss-sartain-raps-cubists-et-al-at/ |access-date=2022-10-10 |via=Newspapers.com}} During World War I, she was first dean of the Philadelphia School of Occupational Therapy.{{Cite news |date=1957-03-06 |title=Harriet Sartain, Noted Artist, Dies |pages=17 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111028446/harriet-sartain-noted-artist-dies/ |access-date=2022-10-10 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=1920-01-18 |title=Miss Sartin Resigns |pages=46 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111028590/miss-sartin-resigns/ |access-date=2022-10-10 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=1919-09-14 |title=Graduates of Therapy Schools are In Demand |pages=26 |work=The Journal and Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111029115/graduates-of-therapy-schools-are-in/ |access-date=2022-10-10 |via=Newspapers.com}} She succeeded her aunt Emily Sartain to become dean of the Philadelphia School of Design for Women in 1920.{{Cite book |last=Prieto |first=Laura R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0bcXHa08knsC&dq=Harriet+Sartain&pg=PA179 |title=At Home in the Studio: The Professionalization of Women Artists in America |date=2001 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-00486-3 |pages=179 |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=1925-09-20 |title=400 Enter Art School |pages=21 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111029439/400-enter-art-school/ |access-date=2022-10-10 |via=Newspapers.com}} When that school merged with the Moore Institute in 1932, she was dean of the joint institution until her retirement in 1946.{{Cite journal |last=Walls |first=Nina de Angeli |date=1994 |title=Educating Women for Art and Commerce: The Philadelphia School of Design, 1848-1932 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/369956 |journal=History of Education Quarterly |volume=34 |issue=3 |pages=329–355 |doi=10.2307/369956 |jstor=369956 |s2cid=248819736 |issn=0018-2680}}

In 1941, the Philadelphia Art Alliance recognized Sartain with a distinguished service medal designed by John R. Sinnock.{{Cite news |date=1941-03-28 |title=Art Plaque Given to Harriet Sartain |pages=29 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111028814/art-plaque-given-to-harriet-sartain/ |access-date=2022-10-10 |via=Newspapers.com}} She was an active member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, the Art Teachers Association of Philadelphia, the Eastern Art Association, the Women's National Farm and Garden Association, and many other clubs and organizations.

• "Light and Shade in Photography" (1901){{Cite journal |last=Sartain |first=Harriet |date=June 1901 |title=Light and Shade in Photography |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pw8_AAAAYAAJ&dq=Harriet+Sartain&pg=PA200 |journal=Wilson's Photographic Magazine |volume=38 |pages=200–203}}
• "Definite Training in the Appreciation of Beauty and its Function in Human Happiness" (1926){{Cite journal |last=Sartain |first=Harriet |date=February 1926 |title=Definite Training in the Appreciation of Beauty and its Function in Human Happiness |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wdsXAQAAIAAJ&dq=Harriet+Sartain&pg=PA164 |journal=Proceedings of the Regular Meeting of the National Association of Deans of Women |volume=13 |pages=164–168}}

Sartain died in 1957, at a hospital in Philadelphia, at the age of 83. Moore College of Art and Design offers a Harriet Sartain Fellowship to fund student travel.{{Cite web |title=Fellowship Opportunities |url=https://moore.edu/creative-impact/career-focused-education/fellowships/ |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=Moore College |language=en}} Moore College also has a dormitory named Sartain Hall, in honor of the Sartain family, including Harriet and Emily Sartain.{{Cite web |title=Sartain Hall Has a New Fireplace |url=https://moore.edu/news/sartain-hall-has-a-new-fireplace/ |access-date=2022-10-10 |website=Moore College |language=en}} Her papers are part of the Sartain Family Papers collections at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

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