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Revision as of 18:02, 16 February 2012
Frances Brand (1901-1990) was a local artist whose most-celebrated work was a collection of portraits called "Firsts" - images of local people who were pioneers in a field or endeavor[1].
Born in 1901 in New York, Frances married a military man with whom she had two children. At the age of 41, she joined the army where she spent a 10 year career as a liaison (particularly in Germany working with children affected by the Nazi regime), ultimately becoming an army major. Upon her retirement, she studied art at Mexico City College (now the University of Mexico) for five years[2]. Her collection of "Firsts" reflects the influence of the Mexican folk painting she studied[3].
The "Firsts" were painted between 1974-78 and include 157 portraits (although some may be part of her "modern madonna" series). The subjects are "people that Mrs. Brand had met and befriended in Charlottesville or Albemarle County, people whose strength of character she admired." [4] Many of her portraits were of notable women in the community or of civil rights leaders. Subjects include Nancy O'Brien, the first woman mayor of Charlottesville, Cornelia Johnson, the city's first female African-American police officer, and Jill Rinehart, the first woman elected to city council[5]. The Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society owns the collection[6].
"Firsts" Portrait subjects and their contributions to the Charlottesville-Albemarle community:
- Alice Gertrude Whitten Kelso- Member of American Association of University Women
- Alice Wesley Ivory- first Black member of the Arts Association
- Amy Doggett- First woman to graduate from the Naval ROTC program at University of Virginia
- Anna Anderson Manahan
- Anna Lucia Puerta
- Anne Mae Bailey- First to introduce French into Charlottesville public schools
- Bessie Guy- President of Charlotttesville Church Women United; gospel singer for the State Department during World War II
- Beverly A. Hankins- First female faculty at UVA McIntire School of Commerce
- Booker Reaves- First African American to receive master's degree from UVA
- Brenda Burrough
- Brenda Richmond
- Carolyn “Karen” B. Hartsock
- Catherine “Kay” G. Peaslee
- Catherine Lynn Burke- First female Rhodes Scholar at University of Virginia in 1976, the first year that was open to women
- Charles “Chuck” Langham
- Charles L. Barbour- First Black mayor
- Charlotte Jennings Yancey Humphris- First Queen of the First Annual Charlottesville Apple Harvest Festival, 1950
- Col. Elbert L. Radford
- Comilla Payne- First teacher of arts in local public schools
- Constance Ward
- Cornelia Johnson- First African American woman on the City police force, 1976
- Cynthia Malloy Gatton- Founded local chapter of Pi Beta Phi
- David Lee
- David Wilson- Founded the School of Psychiatry at University of Virginia, worked for race relations
- Donald W. Jones- African American assistant to President of UVA, Frank Hereford
- Doris Overcash- First female mail carrier of Charlottesville
- Dorothy Emerson
- Dr. Adah Anita Lotti
- Dr. Ann Fulton Humphreys Dyer
- Dr. Dumas Malone- Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Biographer-in-Residence; professor emeritus of history at UVA
- Dr. Edith K. Mosher
- Dr. Frank Finger- UVA Professor of Psychology; wresting coach; runner
- Dr. Leslie E. Rudolf- First doctor to perform kidney transplant in area
- Dr. Lyn Lee
- Dr. Martha Brown Morrison- First Charlottesville-Albemarle member of the famous 99's, the International Organization of Women Pilots
- Dr. Mary Williams Clark- First female orthopedic surgeon at UVA's Kluge Childrens Rehabilitation Center in 1981
- Dr. Nathan Johnson- First African American faculty member, University of Virginia School of Education.
- Dr. Otis Updike- Professor emeritus of chemical and biochemical engineering at UVA
- Dr. Ruth Klueger Angress
- Dr. W. Ralph Singleton
- Dr. Zengxuan Song
- Drewary John Birchard Brown- One of the founders of Monticello Area Community Action Agency (MACAA), an anti-poverty agency
- Duanne Carter
- Eliot Candee Clark- Local artist, president of National Watercolor Society of the U.S
- Elizabeth “Babs” Conant
- Elizabeth Nelson Tompkins
- Elizabeth Pigeon- Only woman professor at UVA in the early 1900s; founded Charlottesville chapter of AAUW
- Elizabeth Seabrook
- Ellen “Enie” Virginia Nash- First woman to practice law on Charlottesville Court Square; Second woman on the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors
- Ellen Dale McCallin
- Ellie Wood Page Keith-First woman to have city street named after her
- Eugene Williams
- Evelyn Patricia Foote
- Fr. William A. Stickle
- Frances Brand
- Frances Farmer- Head librarian of UVA law schol, 1942-1976; started Oral History of UVA law school's second century (1927-2027) in 1979
- Frances Ramsey Joseph- Began annual 4th of July festival in Scottsville
- Francis H. Fife- Mayor, 1972-1974
- Gail Burton Jones- First African American female male carrier in the area
- George and Ruth Maverick- Lynch and Maverick originate from their family name
- Gertrude Ballou Dunbar
- Gertrude Mitchell- First African American member of the local AAUW
- Gina Alycia Brooks
- Glenda F. Richardson- First female welder in the area
- Grace H. Carpenter- First female president of local YMCA in 1974
- Grace L. Tinsley- First African American member of Charlottesville Board of Education
- Gregory Hayes Swanson- First African American who sued to open UVA to African Americans, 1950
- Hazel Hopkins Key- Assistant librarian in the law school; employed 50 years at UVA
- Heinz Kramp- Founder of Innisfree Village, 1971; therpeutic cooperative community for adults with mental challanges; started "The Bridge" in 1991
- Hong Kui Wang
- Imogene Morgan Bunn- First African American nurse to be in charge of city nurses
- William "Bill" MicKinley Harris- Founding dean of UVA Afro-American Affairs Office to promote the welfare of black students
- Irena Berry Norvelle McCormick- Lived to age of 107 in Covesville
- Irina Igorevna Estakhova McClellan- Married to UVA Russian History Professor, Woodford D. McClellan in 1974 in Moscow; couple reunited 1986
- James Butler- First African American elected to the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors; first African American chief of an Extension Office in Virginia; one of two for whom Baker-Butler Elementary is named
- James N. Galloway
- Jannene L. Shannon- First female judge in the area
- Jay Worrall
- Jill Tietsort Rinehart- First woman on Charlottesville City Council, 1972-1976
- John “Jack” Eacott Manahan
- John and Mary Israel
- John Brown
- John Christian Lowe
- John F. Merchant- First African American graduate of UVA law school in 1958
- Joseph Lee Vaughan- First UVA Provost
- Julia Pace- First white woman on the City police force
- Linwood Warwick
- Lt. Col. Joy Suzanne Dallas Eshelman- Among the first of the African American females to graduate from the U.S. Military Acadamy at West Point
- Margaret Jefferson
- Margaret Mcleod Cain
- Margaret Wood
- Marion Kanour- First woman Army ROTC graduate at the University of Virginia
- Marion Nolan
- Martha S. Carpenter- Woman on the first team of radio astronomers at UVA
- Mary Anne Elwood- First female chair of the Charlottesville Democratic Committee, 1978-1982; President of Charlottesville Chamber of Commerce, 1986-1990
- Mary Elizabeth Forbes
- Mary Gore- Gardener at St. Paul's Episcopal Church
- Mary L. Garwood and Rebecca C. Haas- First female firefighters in the area
- Mary Updike- Started Meals on Wheels in area
- Miriam Cooper Walsh- First female Hollywood star in the area
- Mr. Liu- First UVA graduate student from China
- Nancy Flint- Founder of First Night, Charlottesville's New Years Eve celebration
- Nancy O'Brian- First female mayor of Charlottesville
- Nina Garfield
- Nincie Cornelia Darby Currier- Founding member of the Charlottesville-Albemarrle Arts Association
- Ora Ann Maupin- Charlottesville City Treasurer
- Opal David- First woman on the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors
- Otelia Abbott Coles
- [[Paul Garrett| ]Paul Conrad Garrett]- UVA law grad, 1971; First African American as Charlottesville City Attorney, 1976; Charlottesville City Clerk of Circuit Court, 1981
- Paul M. Gaston- History professor at the Univeristy of Virginia; Author of The New South Creed; Active in local civil rights movement
- Paul Toomey
- Priscilla Little- Founding member of FOCUS Women's Resource Center
- Rea Mary Coates Gore Burnette- First female carpenter in area
- Ralph L. Sampson Jr.- Basketball player for UVA 1979-1983; at UVA was three-time College Player of the Year; professional basketball player, 1983-1992
- Randolph White
- Rev. Arie D. Bestebreurtje- Minister at First Presbyterian Church on Part St., active in Dutch resistance during Word War II
- Rev. Benjamin F. Bunn- Founder of local NAACP; minister Main Street Baptist Church
- Rev. Sara A. Payne- First female minister of Presbyterian Church in Crozet
- Rev. Henry Mitchell- First African American president of the Board of Education
- Rev. William Spence Smith
- Richard Chapin Jones- First state forester for Virginia, appointed 1915
- Roberts “Rob” Coles Jr- Fifth great grandson of Thomas Jefferson, acting Thomas Jefferson since 1976
- Ronald C. Gordon
- Ruth Klueger Angress- Professor and concentration camp survivor who resigned from faculty of the University of Virginia in protest over slow pace of integration
- Ruth Harvey Charity- First African American woman on National Democratic Committee; from Danville
- Sally J. Meade
- Sandra Levine- Restored the local American Association of University Women; helped found Piedmont Council of Arts, 1979
- Sandra Sorenson
- Sarah Patton Boyle- Author of The Segregated Heart, first white person on the board of the Charlottesville chapter of NAACP
- Satyendra Singh Huja- Director of Planning and Community Development, 1973; in charge of building and planning first major pedestrian mall (now the Downtown Mall)
- Sheila Vega Hardy- Founder of UVA branch of Delta Epsilon Omega
- Susan and Sandra Murrey- First girls on a boy's soccer team with the City League in Charlottesville; attended Albemarle High School
- T. L. W. “Tillie” Bailey Jr
- Teresa J. Walker Price- First African American librarian in local school system
- Virginia Ann Scott- First woman who sued to open UVA to women, 1969
- Vivian V. Gordon- First African American woman on UVA faculty to receive tenure
- Fr. William A. Stickle- First Roman Catholic chaplin to UVA; founded St. Thomas Aquinas, 1963
- Yvette Parsons- Patient advocate, ombudsman, University of Virginia Hospital
- Dr. Zengxuan Song
- And several unknowns
Color
Frances Brand was known as "The Purple Lady" due to her habit, in later years, of dressing in head-to-toe purple[7]. Her house in Charlottesville, which is now the Frances Brand Gallery, was painted purple by her granddaughter in her memory[8].
Map
Location of Frances Brand's house and gallery[9].
External Links
References
- ↑ Web. Remarkable "firsts" in Charlottesville, Loco History, July 27, 2008, retrieved January 26, 2012.
- ↑ Web. [ Our Firsts, Great and Small], Aleta Burchyski, Charlottesville Woman, March 1, 2011, retrieved January 26, 2012.
- ↑ Web. Online Exhibit: France Brand Collection Exhibit, Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society, retrieved January 26, 2012.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Web. Online Exhibit: Frances Brand Collection, Part One Exhibit, Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society, retrieved 15 Feb 2012.
- ↑ Web. Purple Gain: France Brand's house gets painted, Maxey Hackworth, The Hook, January 30, 2003, retrieved January 26, 2012.
- ↑ Web. Online Exhibit: France Brand Collection Exhibit, Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society, retrieved January 26, 2012.
- ↑ Web. [ Our Firsts, Great and Small], Aleta Burchyski, Charlottesville Woman, March 1, 2011, retrieved January 26, 2012.
- ↑ Web. Purple Gain: France Brand's house gets painted, Maxey Hackworth, The Hook, January 30, 2003, retrieved January 26, 2012.
- ↑ Web. Frances Brand Galleries, Museums USA, June 23, 2011, retrieved January 26, 2012.