Biografie von Sarah M. BARSTOW (act.1858-1891)

Addresses: Sebago, ME; Brooklyn, NY, 1858-91

Profession: Landscape and still-life painter

Exhibited: NAD, 1858-59, 1861-91; Brooklyn AA, 1863-86; PAFA, 1867-69; AIC, 1889.

Comments: She traveled widely in the Northeast, painting the mountains from the Adirondacks to the Catskills to the White Mountains to Mount Desert, ME. In 1883, she exhibited a watercolor street scene of Scheveningen, Holland. Groce & Wallace mentioned the possibly she could be the same as Salome Barstow, a still-life painter on velvet, recorded in Lipman and Winchester.

Sources: G&W; Cowdrey, NAD; Naylor, NAD; Rutledge, PA; Lipman and Winchester, 169.