page_title: Sarah Ann Lillie Hardinge
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Sarah Ann Lillie Hardinge / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Sarah Ann Lillie Hardinge (1824-1913) "Pleasant Grove." Residence of Mr. J. Morrison. Texas 1853-1854 Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on paper Amon Carter Museum of American Art Archives, Fort Worth, Texas, Gift of Natalie K. Shastid 1984.3.9
context_page_description: Sarah Ann Lillie Hardinge was a self-taught painter whose watercolors of Texas, painted between 1852 and 1856, provide rare, early pictorial documentation of the territory. She is among the earliest female painters to depict the state. She later patented a photo-finishing process called Pearletta Pictures.
context_section_description: Hardinge's watercolors provide some of the earliest images of the Texas territory, which had become part of the United States with the Treaty of Guadalupe ending the Mexican-American war in 1848. Hardinge was a self-taught artist. She mainly painted landscapes, views of Texas cities, and the homes of important Texans. She also painted missions and captured daily life on Texas plantations. American Heritage called her work "sharply observant." Her 1853-54 watercolor "Pleasant Grove" -- Residence of Mr. J. Morrison, Texas may include the earliest depiction of a Texas cowhand.
  Some of her works are in the collection of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. The museum collected 19 watercolors and part of her journal into a catalog called Views of Texas: Watercolors by Sarah Ann Lillie Hardinge (1988). It also included an introduction by Ron Tyler, the director of the Texas State Historical Association.
caption: Sarah Ann Lillie Hardinge, "Pleasant Grove." Residence of Mr. J. Morrison. Texas 1853-1854 Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on paper Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Gift of Natalie K. Shastid. 1984.3.9
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