Harriette Bowdoin was born in South Hadley Falls, Massachusetts, and Date unknown. She had a varied and very artistic career. Known as a painter, illustrator, and worker in crafts and as a teacher she spent most of her adult life in and around New York City.

H. Bowdoin studied painting with Sir Frank Brangwyn in France and with Henry Snell and Elliott Daingerfield in New York. Her wonderful and sensitive impressionist renderings of interior motifs endear her to that movement at the turn of the century.

She exhibited an illustration and a painting in the 1917 exhibit of the Society of Independent Artists, listing her address at the time as studio 417, 1947 Broadway, New York.

Memberships:
American Watercolor Society
New York Society of Painters
National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors

Listings:
American Art Annual, v. 10-20
Mantle Fielding
Who was Who in American Art
Dictionary of Women Artist, by Chris Petteys

Illustrated:
Centennial Exhibition 1889-1989, by Members Past and Present of the National Association of Women Artists, p.54

Biography courtesy of Roughton Galleries, www.antiquesandfineart.com/roughton