Harriet Randall Lumis
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Harriet Randall Lumis (1870 – April 6, 1953) was a landscape painter based in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Harriet Randall was born in Salem, Connecticut.
She began art studies after she married, in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1893. She first painted landscapes and studied at the New York Summer School in Cos Cob, Connecticut. Beginning in 1920, Lumis studied under Hugh Breckenridge at the Breckenridge School of Art in East Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Career
Harriet Randall Lumis helped to found the Springfield Art League. In 1921, she was elected as a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. She was one of the founders of the Academic Artists Association, which promoted realistic and traditional art (and opposed modernist art movements).[1] In widowhood she taught art.[2]
