Ti : Being a Rustic Local Idyl

Signed by Author: “To Mrs. F.P. Thomas With Compliments of the Author Elizabeth Snowden aka ”Elizabeth Snowden Nichols Watrous

English, 1901

Publisher: Press of Sentinel, Ticonderoga, N.Y.

Printing: 1st Run.

American fiction: 1901

Physical Description: 300 pages ; 21 cm

Availability: Scarce.

From 1908 Elizabeth had her own studio at the Gainsborough Studios in New York. She was also a novelist, author of It: Being Our Individual Magneto (1911), and another novel entitled Ti 1901.

 In 1914 the Elizabeth Watrous Medal for Sculpture was established, awarded by the National Academy of Design. The medal itself was designed by Robert Ingersoll Aitken. Although Elizabeth's first name was misspelled on the medal, the error was never corrected.

Elizabeth opposed women's suffrage. In 1910, as a member of the National League for the Civic Education of Women, she headed a special committee charged with "instructing artists in the subject of anti-suffrage.

Elizabeth Snowden Nichols Watrous. wife of artist Harry Watrous.

Artists, Harry Watrous and his wife, Elizabeth Nichols Watrous, both prominent in their day.

Harry Watrous was secretary of the National Academy of Design from 1898 to 1920 and served as its president in 1933.

“Elizabeth Watrous was actually the more interesting artist, attempting a kind of early modernism,” said Richard Stout, a contemporary artist living in Hague.

In 1887 Harry Watrous married Elizabeth Snowden Nichols Watrous (1858-1921). Her father, William Snowden Nichols, was a member of the New York Stock Exchange, and she grew up in the posh neighborhood of Grymes Hill, Staten Island. She too was an artist, having studied in Paris under Jean-Jacques Henner and Carolus-Duran at "the studio of the ladies.

She was a founder of the Pen and Brush Club, which in 1918 was deeded a summer studio and hostel in Hague by another artist, Harriet S. Phillips.

 Art Method

Easel Painting

Art Association

National Association of Women Artists, Painters, Sculptors

New York Women's Art Club 1889-1913

Pen and Brush Club, New York

Art Teacher

Charles Carolus-Duran

Exhibition of Art Association

National Academy of Design, New York

National Association of Women Artists (Painters, Sculptors)

Today their home is private, situated on a hill overlooking Lake George, and also of architectural and historical interest. The Watrous house replaced a rustic building which the couple had erected on the property, one of several they built in Hague.