Artist

Ellen Emmet Rand

Portrait of Ellen Emmet Rand
Portrait of Ellen Emmet Rand

American, 1875–1941

Ellen Emmet Rand was an American Impressionism painter. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art, most of them oil paintings. Ellen Emmet Rand was born in San Francisco.

Ellen Emmet Rand (née Ellen Gertrude Emmet; March 4, 1875 – December 18, 1941) was a painter and illustrator. She specialized in portraits, painting over 500 works during her career including portraits of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and her cousins Henry James and William James. Rand studied at the Cowles Art School in Boston and the Art Students League in New York City and produced illustrations for Vogue Magazine and Harper's Weekly before traveling to England and then France to study with sculptor Frederick William MacMonnies.

The William Benton Museum of Art at the University of Connecticut owns the largest collection of her painted works and the University of Connecticut, as well as the Archives of American Art within the Smithsonian Institution both have collections of her papers, photographs, and drawings.

Works by Ellen Emmet Rand

Collections represented

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