biography of Julia McEntee DILLON (1834-1919)

Addresses: Kingston, NY

Profession: Floral painter, teacher

Studied: Paris; Harry Thompson; Georges Jeannin

Exhibited: NAD, 1876-92; Brooklyn AA, 1876-86; Boston AC, 1879-85; PAFA, 1880-81; AIC, 1894

Member: NYWCC

Comments: She specialized in flower paintings, especially of peonies and roses. She was a respected painter/teacher in Kingston, and when she died, the Reverend Theodore Cole (son of Thomas Cole) officiated at her burial, and landscapist Ben Foster wrote a tribute to her in the New York Evening Post. Author: Old Gardens of Kingston (Kingston, NY, 1917; republished, Kingston, NY, Ulster Garden Club, 1987).

Sources: WW17; Gerdts, Art Across America, vol. 1: 172 and note 57 (cites New York Evening Post as undated clipping, in files of the Ulster County Hist. Soc., Kingston, NY)