| Georgia Timken Fry | ||
| Birth Date: 1864 |
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| Death Date: 1921 Artist Gallery |
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| Coming home after a day of watching over the flock – it is late but yet you can still gently herd the sheep by the light of the moon.
Georgia Timken Fry was born in 1864 in St. Louis, Missouri to a well-known industrial family. She began her art education at Washington University and continued studying in New York and then Paris. She returned to America and lived with her parents in California for four years where she painted desert landscapes and Indian genre scenes.
Around 1890 Georgia returned to Washington University in St. Louis where she met John Fry, her professor. They were married in 1891 and moved to Paris to further their studies. In the late 1890s, Georgia was influenced by August F. A. Schenck and a favorite subject of his was sheep. During this time, Georgia’s paintings center on images of sheep and the peasant genre scenes.
In 1910, Georgia Timken Fry traveled up the Nile sketching and painting Egyptian scenes. In 1913, she exhibited “The Bronze Lion” in the Salon. “The Bronze Lion” was an Egyptian scene, which, at the time, was more acceptable to the Salon than her French provincial scenes.
Georgia Timken Fry died while traveling in China in 1921. She was with her friend, Miss Helen Phelps, and two other women, Dr. Saben and her sister.
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