Sarah C. Sears

Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the painter Sarah Choate Sears studied with several painters, including Dennis M. Bunker, Joseph De Camp, Edmund C. Tarbell, and Ross Turner. She has won many awards in the United States and abroad, including the Evans prize at the American Watercolor Society, New York City (1893); a medal at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois (1893); honorable mention at the Paris Exposition, France (1900); a bronze medal at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York (1901); a silver medal at the Charleston Exposition, South Carolina (1902); a silver medal at the St. Louis Exposition, Missouri (1904); and others.