-- -- -- -- --
.
NAME: Levina (Baker) Porter.
FATHER: Edwin S. Baker (1818-1901).
MOTHER: Virgina Kitchell Baker (1824-1902).
HUSBAND: Warner O. Porter.
.
FORMER HUSBAND: Edward Rufus Hill, artist (1851-1908).
.
ONE SON: Rowland K. Hill (1903–1972).
ONE DAUGHTER: Virginia Hill.
.
-- -- -- -- --
.
Levina Baker, daughter of Edwin S. and Virginia (Kitchell) Baker, grew up in Tuscola Township, Illinois. Levina was an artist, and she was known by the name "Levina Baker Hill."
.
MARRIAGE # 1. Edward Rufus Hill, artist.
MARRIAGE # 2: "Warner O. Porter, a Boulder Creek, Calif., farmer. (Year of marriage: 1921)."
.
-- -- -- -- --
.
OBITUARY. Levina Baker Hill Porter.
2nd Wife of Warner O. Porter:
.
"PASSES AWAY SUDDENLY. Levina Baker Porter, of Boulder Creek passed away rather suddenly at a local sanitarium last night. Mrs. Warner O. Porter was brought down from the mountain town yesterday in a serious condition and her death occurred a few hours afterward. The deceased was 59 years of age, and a native of Kansas. The remains are at the parlors of Wessendorf & Son on church street." END. SOURCE: "Santa Cruz Evening News." Published Friday, March 24, 1922. (Transcribed by Cathy Porter-Maynard).
.
-- -- -- -- --
.
TIMELINE FOR LEVINA (BAKER) HILL PORTER.
[Compiled by Cathy Porter-Maynard].
.
1863 BIRTH: September 23, 1863. Tuscola Township, Illinois. (SOURCE: "An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West").
.
1870 CENSUS. Tuscola, Douglas, Illinois. (Household of E. S. Baker, 52; wife, Virginia Baker, 45; and, their children: Surena, 24; Vivilea, 17; Carroll, 15; Septena, 13; Lrincea, 8; and, LEVENA BAKER, age 6). NOTE: Many of the names are misspelled in this old census entry).
.
1880 CENSUS. Tuscola, Douglas, Illinois. (Household of Edwin S. Baker, 61; wife, Virginia Baker, 55; Zarinia S. Baker, 34; Septima Baker, 23; Frances E. Baker, 18; and, Levina Baker, 16).
.
1885: Occupation. Artist. California.
.
1892+ CITY DIRECTORIES: Oakland, California. (YEARS: 1892, 1893, 1894, 1901, 1904). "Levina Baker Hill Porter appeared under her maiden name in the Oakland, CALIF., directories in 1892, 1893, 1894, and 1901, always as an artist. In 1904 she was listed for the first time as "Mrs. E.R. Hill, artist" (wife of Edward Hill, also a painter").
.
1902. Marriage to Edward Rufus Hill Oakland, Alameda, California.
.
1910 CENSUS. Oakland Ward 7, Alameda, California. (Household of Levina Hill, age 47, widowed; and, her two children, Rowland Hill, 6; and, Virginia Hill, age 3).
.
1920 CENSUS. Ben Lomond, Santa Cruz, California. (Household of Lavina B. Hill, 56, widowed; and, her children, Rowland K. Hill, 16; and, Virginia R. Hill, age 15).
.
1921: Marriage to Warner O. Porter, Boulder Creek, California. SOURCE: "An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West," by Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick. Publisher: University of Texas Press; 1st edition (August 1998). ISBN-10: 0292790635. SEE: Page 141. EXCERPT: ''In 1921 she married Warner O. Porter."
.
1922 DEATH:
March 24, 1922. Santa Cruz, California. (SOURCE: "An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West").
.
End.
.
[Research of Cathy Porter-Maynard].
.
-- -- -- -- --
.
WESTERN WOMEN ARTISTS: An Overview.
"Women artists have been inspired by the American West for more than 140 years, producing works of art as varied as the region itself and distinctive for their power and imagination." The book, "An Encyclolpedia of Women Artists of the American West" provides a comprehensive overview of the women whose artwork .... [in progress]
.
.
INDEX OF NAMES (page xxvi):
Hill, Levina Baker.
.
.
Levina Baker Hill
• 23 Sep 1863, Illinois - 24 Mar 1922, Santa Cruz, California.
.
Levina Baker Hill, the daughter of Edwin S. and Virginia Baker, grew up in Tuscola Township, Illinois. After her family moved to Cherryvale, Kansas, in the early 1880s, she attended the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (1883-1885) and the PAFA (1885). Not long after, she moved to California, where she spent most of her remaining years. She appeared under her maiden name in the Oakland directories in 1892, 1893, 1894, and 1901, always as an artist. In 1904 she was listed for the first time as "Mrs. E.R. Hill, artist" (wife of Edward Hill, also a painter and the oldest son of famed California artist Thomas Hill). Later, following her husband's death in 1908, she continued to reside in Oakland, still active as an artist, until 1914. Afterward, she taught in Vacaville and then Boulder Creek while living in Ben Lomond. In 1921 she married Warner O. Porter, a Boulder Creek farmer.
.
Hill exhibited "Horse Head;"The Orange Girl;" and "Cow's Head" at the Mechanics Institute Fair, San Francisco (1889), and "Lilacs" (1893) and "Under the Oaks" and "Portrait" (1894) at shows of the SFAA. Important to her standing as a painter of western subjects, however, are such extant titles as "Indian Child with Spindle Whorl;" "Indian Papoose;" "Yosemite;" "Squaw with Papoose;" "Squaw Making Basket;" "Indian Girl with Doll;" and "On the Trail," depicting two miners camping. She also did canvases of holdups in Yosemite, which were frequent occurrences in those days.
.
Hill is represented in the collections of the San Mateo Historical Society Museum, CA; Society of California Pioneers, San Francisco; and Athenian Nile Club, Oakland.
.
REFERENCES: Hughes, "Santa Cruz Sentinel, 25 Mar 1922; SF Chron, 10 Mar 1966; PAFA, AAA, reel P62; US Cen 1870, Douglas County, Illinois, pg 367; US Cen 1880, Douglas County, Illinois, ED 89, pg. 58; US Cen 1920, Santa Cruz Co., CA, ED 214, pg 11; death cert; Alameda Co, CA, marriage rec 1858, 20 Jun 1921; Santa Cruz Co, CA, Probate Court, will of L.B. Porter, 8 May 1922; Oakland CD; Santa Cruz CD; E Hill (grandson), 1975, 1976; A.E. Wilder, 1975; C. Smith, 1975.
.
[End]
.
SOURCE:
TITLE: ''An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West.'' AUTHORS: Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick.
PUBLISHER: University of Texas Press; 1st edition (August 1998).
ISBN-10: 0292790635.
.
SEE: Page 141-142. EXCERPT: ....''In 1921 she [Levina Baker Hill] married Warner O. Porter, a Boulder Creek farmer.''
.
-- -- -- -- --
.
NAME: Levina (Baker) Porter.
FATHER: Edwin S. Baker (1818-1901).
MOTHER: Virgina Kitchell Baker (1824-1902).
HUSBAND: Warner O. Porter.
.
FORMER HUSBAND: Edward Rufus Hill, artist (1851-1908).
.
ONE SON: Rowland K. Hill (1903–1972).
ONE DAUGHTER: Virginia Hill.
.
-- -- -- -- --
.
Levina Baker, daughter of Edwin S. and Virginia (Kitchell) Baker, grew up in Tuscola Township, Illinois. Levina was an artist, and she was known by the name "Levina Baker Hill."
.
MARRIAGE # 1. Edward Rufus Hill, artist.
MARRIAGE # 2: "Warner O. Porter, a Boulder Creek, Calif., farmer. (Year of marriage: 1921)."
.
-- -- -- -- --
.
OBITUARY. Levina Baker Hill Porter.
2nd Wife of Warner O. Porter:
.
"PASSES AWAY SUDDENLY. Levina Baker Porter, of Boulder Creek passed away rather suddenly at a local sanitarium last night. Mrs. Warner O. Porter was brought down from the mountain town yesterday in a serious condition and her death occurred a few hours afterward. The deceased was 59 years of age, and a native of Kansas. The remains are at the parlors of Wessendorf & Son on church street." END. SOURCE: "Santa Cruz Evening News." Published Friday, March 24, 1922. (Transcribed by Cathy Porter-Maynard).
.
-- -- -- -- --
.
TIMELINE FOR LEVINA (BAKER) HILL PORTER.
[Compiled by Cathy Porter-Maynard].
.
1863 BIRTH: September 23, 1863. Tuscola Township, Illinois. (SOURCE: "An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West").
.
1870 CENSUS. Tuscola, Douglas, Illinois. (Household of E. S. Baker, 52; wife, Virginia Baker, 45; and, their children: Surena, 24; Vivilea, 17; Carroll, 15; Septena, 13; Lrincea, 8; and, LEVENA BAKER, age 6). NOTE: Many of the names are misspelled in this old census entry).
.
1880 CENSUS. Tuscola, Douglas, Illinois. (Household of Edwin S. Baker, 61; wife, Virginia Baker, 55; Zarinia S. Baker, 34; Septima Baker, 23; Frances E. Baker, 18; and, Levina Baker, 16).
.
1885: Occupation. Artist. California.
.
1892+ CITY DIRECTORIES: Oakland, California. (YEARS: 1892, 1893, 1894, 1901, 1904). "Levina Baker Hill Porter appeared under her maiden name in the Oakland, CALIF., directories in 1892, 1893, 1894, and 1901, always as an artist. In 1904 she was listed for the first time as "Mrs. E.R. Hill, artist" (wife of Edward Hill, also a painter").
.
1902. Marriage to Edward Rufus Hill Oakland, Alameda, California.
.
1910 CENSUS. Oakland Ward 7, Alameda, California. (Household of Levina Hill, age 47, widowed; and, her two children, Rowland Hill, 6; and, Virginia Hill, age 3).
.
1920 CENSUS. Ben Lomond, Santa Cruz, California. (Household of Lavina B. Hill, 56, widowed; and, her children, Rowland K. Hill, 16; and, Virginia R. Hill, age 15).
.
1921: Marriage to Warner O. Porter, Boulder Creek, California. SOURCE: "An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West," by Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick. Publisher: University of Texas Press; 1st edition (August 1998). ISBN-10: 0292790635. SEE: Page 141. EXCERPT: ''In 1921 she married Warner O. Porter."
.
1922 DEATH:
March 24, 1922. Santa Cruz, California. (SOURCE: "An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West").
.
End.
.
[Research of Cathy Porter-Maynard].
.
-- -- -- -- --
.
WESTERN WOMEN ARTISTS: An Overview.
"Women artists have been inspired by the American West for more than 140 years, producing works of art as varied as the region itself and distinctive for their power and imagination." The book, "An Encyclolpedia of Women Artists of the American West" provides a comprehensive overview of the women whose artwork .... [in progress]
.
.
INDEX OF NAMES (page xxvi):
Hill, Levina Baker.
.
.
Levina Baker Hill
• 23 Sep 1863, Illinois - 24 Mar 1922, Santa Cruz, California.
.
Levina Baker Hill, the daughter of Edwin S. and Virginia Baker, grew up in Tuscola Township, Illinois. After her family moved to Cherryvale, Kansas, in the early 1880s, she attended the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (1883-1885) and the PAFA (1885). Not long after, she moved to California, where she spent most of her remaining years. She appeared under her maiden name in the Oakland directories in 1892, 1893, 1894, and 1901, always as an artist. In 1904 she was listed for the first time as "Mrs. E.R. Hill, artist" (wife of Edward Hill, also a painter and the oldest son of famed California artist Thomas Hill). Later, following her husband's death in 1908, she continued to reside in Oakland, still active as an artist, until 1914. Afterward, she taught in Vacaville and then Boulder Creek while living in Ben Lomond. In 1921 she married Warner O. Porter, a Boulder Creek farmer.
.
Hill exhibited "Horse Head;"The Orange Girl;" and "Cow's Head" at the Mechanics Institute Fair, San Francisco (1889), and "Lilacs" (1893) and "Under the Oaks" and "Portrait" (1894) at shows of the SFAA. Important to her standing as a painter of western subjects, however, are such extant titles as "Indian Child with Spindle Whorl;" "Indian Papoose;" "Yosemite;" "Squaw with Papoose;" "Squaw Making Basket;" "Indian Girl with Doll;" and "On the Trail," depicting two miners camping. She also did canvases of holdups in Yosemite, which were frequent occurrences in those days.
.
Hill is represented in the collections of the San Mateo Historical Society Museum, CA; Society of California Pioneers, San Francisco; and Athenian Nile Club, Oakland.
.
REFERENCES: Hughes, "Santa Cruz Sentinel, 25 Mar 1922; SF Chron, 10 Mar 1966; PAFA, AAA, reel P62; US Cen 1870, Douglas County, Illinois, pg 367; US Cen 1880, Douglas County, Illinois, ED 89, pg. 58; US Cen 1920, Santa Cruz Co., CA, ED 214, pg 11; death cert; Alameda Co, CA, marriage rec 1858, 20 Jun 1921; Santa Cruz Co, CA, Probate Court, will of L.B. Porter, 8 May 1922; Oakland CD; Santa Cruz CD; E Hill (grandson), 1975, 1976; A.E. Wilder, 1975; C. Smith, 1975.
.
[End]
.
SOURCE:
TITLE: ''An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West.'' AUTHORS: Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick.
PUBLISHER: University of Texas Press; 1st edition (August 1998).
ISBN-10: 0292790635.
.
SEE: Page 141-142. EXCERPT: ....''In 1921 she [Levina Baker Hill] married Warner O. Porter, a Boulder Creek farmer.''
.
-- -- -- -- --
-- -- -- -- --
.
NAME: Levina (Baker) Porter.
FATHER: Edwin S. Baker (1818-1901).
MOTHER: Virgina Kitchell Baker (1824-1902).
HUSBAND: Warner O. Porter.
.
FORMER HUSBAND: Edward Rufus Hill, artist (1851-1908).
.
ONE SON: Rowland K. Hill (1903–1972).
ONE DAUGHTER: Virginia Hill.
.
-- -- -- -- --
.
Levina Baker, daughter of Edwin S. and Virginia (Kitchell) Baker, grew up in Tuscola Township, Illinois. Levina was an artist, and she was known by the name "Levina Baker Hill."
.
MARRIAGE # 1. Edward Rufus Hill, artist.
MARRIAGE # 2: "Warner O. Porter, a Boulder Creek, Calif., farmer. (Year of marriage: 1921)."
.
-- -- -- -- --
.
OBITUARY. Levina Baker Hill Porter.
2nd Wife of Warner O. Porter:
.
"PASSES AWAY SUDDENLY. Levina Baker Porter, of Boulder Creek passed away rather suddenly at a local sanitarium last night. Mrs. Warner O. Porter was brought down from the mountain town yesterday in a serious condition and her death occurred a few hours afterward. The deceased was 59 years of age, and a native of Kansas. The remains are at the parlors of Wessendorf & Son on church street." END. SOURCE: "Santa Cruz Evening News." Published Friday, March 24, 1922. (Transcribed by Cathy Porter-Maynard).
.
-- -- -- -- --
.
TIMELINE FOR LEVINA (BAKER) HILL PORTER.
[Compiled by Cathy Porter-Maynard].
.
1863 BIRTH: September 23, 1863. Tuscola Township, Illinois. (SOURCE: "An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West").
.
1870 CENSUS. Tuscola, Douglas, Illinois. (Household of E. S. Baker, 52; wife, Virginia Baker, 45; and, their children: Surena, 24; Vivilea, 17; Carroll, 15; Septena, 13; Lrincea, 8; and, LEVENA BAKER, age 6). NOTE: Many of the names are misspelled in this old census entry).
.
1880 CENSUS. Tuscola, Douglas, Illinois. (Household of Edwin S. Baker, 61; wife, Virginia Baker, 55; Zarinia S. Baker, 34; Septima Baker, 23; Frances E. Baker, 18; and, Levina Baker, 16).
.
1885: Occupation. Artist. California.
.
1892+ CITY DIRECTORIES: Oakland, California. (YEARS: 1892, 1893, 1894, 1901, 1904). "Levina Baker Hill Porter appeared under her maiden name in the Oakland, CALIF., directories in 1892, 1893, 1894, and 1901, always as an artist. In 1904 she was listed for the first time as "Mrs. E.R. Hill, artist" (wife of Edward Hill, also a painter").
.
1902. Marriage to Edward Rufus Hill Oakland, Alameda, California.
.
1910 CENSUS. Oakland Ward 7, Alameda, California. (Household of Levina Hill, age 47, widowed; and, her two children, Rowland Hill, 6; and, Virginia Hill, age 3).
.
1920 CENSUS. Ben Lomond, Santa Cruz, California. (Household of Lavina B. Hill, 56, widowed; and, her children, Rowland K. Hill, 16; and, Virginia R. Hill, age 15).
.
1921: Marriage to Warner O. Porter, Boulder Creek, California. SOURCE: "An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West," by Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick. Publisher: University of Texas Press; 1st edition (August 1998). ISBN-10: 0292790635. SEE: Page 141. EXCERPT: ''In 1921 she married Warner O. Porter."
.
1922 DEATH:
March 24, 1922. Santa Cruz, California. (SOURCE: "An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West").
.
End.
.
[Research of Cathy Porter-Maynard].
.
-- -- -- -- --
.
WESTERN WOMEN ARTISTS: An Overview.
"Women artists have been inspired by the American West for more than 140 years, producing works of art as varied as the region itself and distinctive for their power and imagination." The book, "An Encyclolpedia of Women Artists of the American West" provides a comprehensive overview of the women whose artwork .... [in progress]
.
.
INDEX OF NAMES (page xxvi):
Hill, Levina Baker.
.
.
Levina Baker Hill
• 23 Sep 1863, Illinois - 24 Mar 1922, Santa Cruz, California.
.
Levina Baker Hill, the daughter of Edwin S. and Virginia Baker, grew up in Tuscola Township, Illinois. After her family moved to Cherryvale, Kansas, in the early 1880s, she attended the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (1883-1885) and the PAFA (1885). Not long after, she moved to California, where she spent most of her remaining years. She appeared under her maiden name in the Oakland directories in 1892, 1893, 1894, and 1901, always as an artist. In 1904 she was listed for the first time as "Mrs. E.R. Hill, artist" (wife of Edward Hill, also a painter and the oldest son of famed California artist Thomas Hill). Later, following her husband's death in 1908, she continued to reside in Oakland, still active as an artist, until 1914. Afterward, she taught in Vacaville and then Boulder Creek while living in Ben Lomond. In 1921 she married Warner O. Porter, a Boulder Creek farmer.
.
Hill exhibited "Horse Head;"The Orange Girl;" and "Cow's Head" at the Mechanics Institute Fair, San Francisco (1889), and "Lilacs" (1893) and "Under the Oaks" and "Portrait" (1894) at shows of the SFAA. Important to her standing as a painter of western subjects, however, are such extant titles as "Indian Child with Spindle Whorl;" "Indian Papoose;" "Yosemite;" "Squaw with Papoose;" "Squaw Making Basket;" "Indian Girl with Doll;" and "On the Trail," depicting two miners camping. She also did canvases of holdups in Yosemite, which were frequent occurrences in those days.
.
Hill is represented in the collections of the San Mateo Historical Society Museum, CA; Society of California Pioneers, San Francisco; and Athenian Nile Club, Oakland.
.
REFERENCES: Hughes, "Santa Cruz Sentinel, 25 Mar 1922; SF Chron, 10 Mar 1966; PAFA, AAA, reel P62; US Cen 1870, Douglas County, Illinois, pg 367; US Cen 1880, Douglas County, Illinois, ED 89, pg. 58; US Cen 1920, Santa Cruz Co., CA, ED 214, pg 11; death cert; Alameda Co, CA, marriage rec 1858, 20 Jun 1921; Santa Cruz Co, CA, Probate Court, will of L.B. Porter, 8 May 1922; Oakland CD; Santa Cruz CD; E Hill (grandson), 1975, 1976; A.E. Wilder, 1975; C. Smith, 1975.
.
[End]
.
SOURCE:
TITLE: ''An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West.'' AUTHORS: Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick.
PUBLISHER: University of Texas Press; 1st edition (August 1998).
ISBN-10: 0292790635.
.
SEE: Page 141-142. EXCERPT: ....''In 1921 she [Levina Baker Hill] married Warner O. Porter, a Boulder Creek farmer.''
.
-- -- -- -- --
.
NAME: Levina (Baker) Porter.
FATHER: Edwin S. Baker (1818-1901).
MOTHER: Virgina Kitchell Baker (1824-1902).
HUSBAND: Warner O. Porter.
.
FORMER HUSBAND: Edward Rufus Hill, artist (1851-1908).
.
ONE SON: Rowland K. Hill (1903–1972).
ONE DAUGHTER: Virginia Hill.
.
-- -- -- -- --
.
Levina Baker, daughter of Edwin S. and Virginia (Kitchell) Baker, grew up in Tuscola Township, Illinois. Levina was an artist, and she was known by the name "Levina Baker Hill."
.
MARRIAGE # 1. Edward Rufus Hill, artist.
MARRIAGE # 2: "Warner O. Porter, a Boulder Creek, Calif., farmer. (Year of marriage: 1921)."
.
-- -- -- -- --
.
OBITUARY. Levina Baker Hill Porter.
2nd Wife of Warner O. Porter:
.
"PASSES AWAY SUDDENLY. Levina Baker Porter, of Boulder Creek passed away rather suddenly at a local sanitarium last night. Mrs. Warner O. Porter was brought down from the mountain town yesterday in a serious condition and her death occurred a few hours afterward. The deceased was 59 years of age, and a native of Kansas. The remains are at the parlors of Wessendorf & Son on church street." END. SOURCE: "Santa Cruz Evening News." Published Friday, March 24, 1922. (Transcribed by Cathy Porter-Maynard).
.
-- -- -- -- --
.
TIMELINE FOR LEVINA (BAKER) HILL PORTER.
[Compiled by Cathy Porter-Maynard].
.
1863 BIRTH: September 23, 1863. Tuscola Township, Illinois. (SOURCE: "An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West").
.
1870 CENSUS. Tuscola, Douglas, Illinois. (Household of E. S. Baker, 52; wife, Virginia Baker, 45; and, their children: Surena, 24; Vivilea, 17; Carroll, 15; Septena, 13; Lrincea, 8; and, LEVENA BAKER, age 6). NOTE: Many of the names are misspelled in this old census entry).
.
1880 CENSUS. Tuscola, Douglas, Illinois. (Household of Edwin S. Baker, 61; wife, Virginia Baker, 55; Zarinia S. Baker, 34; Septima Baker, 23; Frances E. Baker, 18; and, Levina Baker, 16).
.
1885: Occupation. Artist. California.
.
1892+ CITY DIRECTORIES: Oakland, California. (YEARS: 1892, 1893, 1894, 1901, 1904). "Levina Baker Hill Porter appeared under her maiden name in the Oakland, CALIF., directories in 1892, 1893, 1894, and 1901, always as an artist. In 1904 she was listed for the first time as "Mrs. E.R. Hill, artist" (wife of Edward Hill, also a painter").
.
1902. Marriage to Edward Rufus Hill Oakland, Alameda, California.
.
1910 CENSUS. Oakland Ward 7, Alameda, California. (Household of Levina Hill, age 47, widowed; and, her two children, Rowland Hill, 6; and, Virginia Hill, age 3).
.
1920 CENSUS. Ben Lomond, Santa Cruz, California. (Household of Lavina B. Hill, 56, widowed; and, her children, Rowland K. Hill, 16; and, Virginia R. Hill, age 15).
.
1921: Marriage to Warner O. Porter, Boulder Creek, California. SOURCE: "An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West," by Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick. Publisher: University of Texas Press; 1st edition (August 1998). ISBN-10: 0292790635. SEE: Page 141. EXCERPT: ''In 1921 she married Warner O. Porter."
.
1922 DEATH:
March 24, 1922. Santa Cruz, California. (SOURCE: "An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West").
.
End.
.
[Research of Cathy Porter-Maynard].
.
-- -- -- -- --
.
WESTERN WOMEN ARTISTS: An Overview.
"Women artists have been inspired by the American West for more than 140 years, producing works of art as varied as the region itself and distinctive for their power and imagination." The book, "An Encyclolpedia of Women Artists of the American West" provides a comprehensive overview of the women whose artwork .... [in progress]
.
.
INDEX OF NAMES (page xxvi):
Hill, Levina Baker.
.
.
Levina Baker Hill
• 23 Sep 1863, Illinois - 24 Mar 1922, Santa Cruz, California.
.
Levina Baker Hill, the daughter of Edwin S. and Virginia Baker, grew up in Tuscola Township, Illinois. After her family moved to Cherryvale, Kansas, in the early 1880s, she attended the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (1883-1885) and the PAFA (1885). Not long after, she moved to California, where she spent most of her remaining years. She appeared under her maiden name in the Oakland directories in 1892, 1893, 1894, and 1901, always as an artist. In 1904 she was listed for the first time as "Mrs. E.R. Hill, artist" (wife of Edward Hill, also a painter and the oldest son of famed California artist Thomas Hill). Later, following her husband's death in 1908, she continued to reside in Oakland, still active as an artist, until 1914. Afterward, she taught in Vacaville and then Boulder Creek while living in Ben Lomond. In 1921 she married Warner O. Porter, a Boulder Creek farmer.
.
Hill exhibited "Horse Head;"The Orange Girl;" and "Cow's Head" at the Mechanics Institute Fair, San Francisco (1889), and "Lilacs" (1893) and "Under the Oaks" and "Portrait" (1894) at shows of the SFAA. Important to her standing as a painter of western subjects, however, are such extant titles as "Indian Child with Spindle Whorl;" "Indian Papoose;" "Yosemite;" "Squaw with Papoose;" "Squaw Making Basket;" "Indian Girl with Doll;" and "On the Trail," depicting two miners camping. She also did canvases of holdups in Yosemite, which were frequent occurrences in those days.
.
Hill is represented in the collections of the San Mateo Historical Society Museum, CA; Society of California Pioneers, San Francisco; and Athenian Nile Club, Oakland.
.
REFERENCES: Hughes, "Santa Cruz Sentinel, 25 Mar 1922; SF Chron, 10 Mar 1966; PAFA, AAA, reel P62; US Cen 1870, Douglas County, Illinois, pg 367; US Cen 1880, Douglas County, Illinois, ED 89, pg. 58; US Cen 1920, Santa Cruz Co., CA, ED 214, pg 11; death cert; Alameda Co, CA, marriage rec 1858, 20 Jun 1921; Santa Cruz Co, CA, Probate Court, will of L.B. Porter, 8 May 1922; Oakland CD; Santa Cruz CD; E Hill (grandson), 1975, 1976; A.E. Wilder, 1975; C. Smith, 1975.
.
[End]
.
SOURCE:
TITLE: ''An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West.'' AUTHORS: Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick.
PUBLISHER: University of Texas Press; 1st edition (August 1998).
ISBN-10: 0292790635.
.
SEE: Page 141-142. EXCERPT: ....''In 1921 she [Levina Baker Hill] married Warner O. Porter, a Boulder Creek farmer.''
.
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