Mrs. Clara Hatch Stevens was born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, April 22, 1855, of English descent on her father's side, and French on her mother's.
Was graduated from Jacksonville (Illinois) Female Academy in 1873. Afterwards took a post-graduate course at Hamilton College, Lexington, Kentucky. Studied Art during the entire time at these institutions under the best teachers; and afterwards at the Art Students' League, New York city, under Mr. J. Carroll Beckwith, and private lessons of Mr. Frank Fowler and Mr. R. M. Shurtleff in the same city; also had lessons of Mr. Dennett Grover and Mr. Louis C. Earle of Chicago. Has exhibited paintings in the Academy of Fine
Arts, Brooklyn, New York, St. Louis and Chicago. Had charge of the Art Department three years at Drury College, Springfield, Missouri, and afterwards at Eureka, Illinois.
In 1893 she received an appointment from Mrs. Potter Palmer, President of the Board of Lady Managers, Chicago, of the World's Columbian Exposition, to assist in the mural painting of the Woman's Building.
Source:
A History of Eureka College, St. Louis: Christian Publishing
Company, 1894.