Borie, Adolphe

Title

Borie, Adolphe

Relation

Son Peter married Mary Stacy Lakin; granddaughter of Charles Beaman

Cornish Dates

1909

Accompanied By

Cornish Residence(s)

Birth

5 Jan 1877
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Death

14 May 1934
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Non-Cornish Residence

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Spouse

Edith Pettit Borie
Married 8 Apr 1907

Relations

Profession

Painter

Location Studied

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Royal Academy of Munich

Studied Under

William Merritt Chase
Thomas Anshutz
Carl Marr

Affiliations

National Society of Portrait Painters
National Academy of Design
Fellow, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Camouflage unit

Awards

Carol Beck Gold Medal (1910)
Silver, Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915)
Isaac Maynard Prize, National Academy of Design (1917)
Art Club gold medal (1926)
Norman Walt Harris Bronze Medal (1926)
William A Clark prize (1926)

Sources

Biddle, George, "Adolphe Borie - The Man," Parnassus 7:7 (Dec 1935), 2-4.

Colby, Virginia Reed and James B. Atkinson, Footprints of the Past: Images of Cornish, New Hampshire & the Cornish Colony (Cornish NH: Cornish Historical Society, 2010), 462.

Dearinger, David Bernard, Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: 1826-1925 (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2004), 57-58.

Taylor, Henry Francis, "Adolphe Borie - The Painter," Parnassus 7:7 (Dec 1935), 5-6.

Citation

“Borie, Adolphe,” The Cornish Colony Compendium, accessed September 19, 2024, https://cornishcolony.org/items/show/448.