page_title: Alice Stewart Hill
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Alice Stewart Hill / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Helen [Hunt] Jackson, illustrated by Alice A. Stewart. The Procession of Flowers in Colorado. Illustrated in water colors by Alice A. Stewart. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1886.
context_page_description: Alice Stewart Hill was an American artist who created paintings and illustrations. Her specialty was creating works of art based upon the flowers of Colorado. Her work was of interest to noted botanist Asa Gray of Harvard College because Colorado has flowers that were different than their eastern varieties, as well as flowers that grow above the timberline on Pikes Peak.
context_section_description: She was an artist and art instructor of Colorado Springs. She taught watercolor painting, oil painting, and drawing primarily in Colorado Springs and also in Denver from the time she arrived in Colorado. She had a studio full of her works—paintings of flowers, crayon landscapes, and a variety of works on paper and cedar—which she sold.
  The quality of the painting makes these pictures desirable their great value comes from the fact that they are paintings of Colorado flowers. It is well known that the flora of the Rocky Mountains is distinct in genus and species from that east of the Mississippi.
  — "Miss Stewart’s Painting of Flower", Weekly Gazette, October 12, 1878
  The country's leading botanist, Professor Asa Gray of Harvard College, placed a large order for her works of Colorado flowers. There were flowers that grew above the timberline on Pikes Peak. There were also flowers that were different than the varieties in the eastern part of the country, such as: the daisy, anemone, and harebell. With Susan Dunbar, she identified all the state's wildflowers. She had the largest collection of works of Colorado flowers in the country.
  She illustrated for a number of authors from Colorado Springs, including Susan Teel Dunbar's story "Anemones" and other works. She illustrated works for Helen Hunt Jackson, including The Procession of Flowers in Colorado under the name Alice A. Stewart, and she specialized in watercolor paintings of Colorado wildflowers. She created illustrations for Susan Coolidge, the pen name for Sarah Chauncey Woolsey entitled Her Garden. It was written following the death of her friend, Helen Hunt Jackson, about her favorite flower-filled place on Cheyenne Mountain. Etchings were made by Parrish and Hill of her illustrations for the special edition book. M Virginia Donaghé's books A Colorado Wreath and Colorado Favorites were illustrated by her, under the name Alice A Stewart. Her etchings of wildflowers appear in a section entitled "Colorado Wild Flowers" in the book Extraordinary Women of the Rocky Mountain West. Hill collected 365 flower poems for an anthology The Day and the Flower which was published in 1895.
  She painted a portrait of Irving Howbert, who was at that time the county clerk.
caption: The Procession of Flowers, Helen Hunt Jackson, illustrated by Alice A. Stewart, 1886
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