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Lady
with the Pearls, 1930 Juliette Marie Desport was born November 18, 1889 in Louisville, Kentucky. Daughter of Alphonse and Carrie Leta (Walling) Desport, Juliette was about four when her father, an artist and French immigrant, moved the family to Bowling Green where he painted and taught art classes. Upon his death in 1905, she moved with her mother and brother to Nashville, Tennessee. There Juliette attended Belmont College and the Watkins Institute before being accepted to New York's Cooper Union Art School where she studied under Alpheus Cole. The drawing on exhibit was executed while Desport studied in New York. Juliette was an independent and physically active woman. Aside from art studies and a very successful side-business fashioning crepe paper roses, her daily routine while in New York included a one-hour boat row, followed by a 15-block walk to the YWCA where she swam for another half-hour. She was a prolific artist who traveled extensively in the eastern part of the United States attending art schools during the summers. In 1968, at age 79, she toured Europe for four months visiting 80 cities in 18 countries. Juliette Desport died June 14, 1985 in Nashville. |
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