Born in Brooklyn, New York, on May 18, 1867, Elisabeth Cary was educated at home by her father, a newspaper editor, and for ten years studied painting with local teachers. She became deeply interested in literature and began her career by publishing three translations from the French: Recollections of Middle Life, by Francisque Sarcey, 1893, Russian Portraits by E. Melchior de VogƒÄ, 1895, and The Land of Tawny Beasts by ╥Pierre Maæl╙ (Charles Causse and Charles Vincent), 1895. In 1898 she published her first original work, a critical appreciation entitled Tennyson: His Homes, His Friends, and His Work. A similar Browning, Poet and Man, 1899, was followed by The Rossettis: Dante Gabriel and Christina, 1900, William Morris, Poet, Craftsman, Socialist, 1902, Emerson, Poet and Thinker, 1904, and The Novels of Henry James, 1905. Her critical scheme placed emphasis on moral earnestness, refinement, and beauty of expression, values that informed her own writing as well as that of her subjects. Subsequent books dealt with art and artists and included The Art of William Blake, 1907, HonorÄ Daumier, 1907, The Works of James McNeill Whistler, 1907, and Artists Past and Present: Random Studies, 1909. In 1905 she had begun writing and publishing a small art monthly called the Scrip.
In 1908 Adolph S. Ochs, publisher of the New York Times, was impressed by a copy of the magazine and offered Cary a job as art critic for his newspaper. There had been no such position before, and over the next 28 years she worked diligently to make it an integral part both of the newspaper and of the New York art scene. Her calm and conscientious reviews of gallery and museum shows over the years struck a consistent note of open-minded, genuine interest through the turmoil of early twentieth-century art. While devoted to standards of an earlier era, she was willing and eager to find them expressed in new modes. After 1927 she gave up much of the chore of reviewing and wrote mainly feature articles, often on her own field of particular interest, printmaking. She died in Brooklyn on July 13, 1936.
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