This Louisville painter, graphic artist and educator was born
in East Hampton, Long Island, New York, into a Louisville family
who had summered there since the early 1900s. She spent 30 years
of her life in Amagansett, New York.
Her early art studies in Rome, Italy, led her to the Art
Students League in New York City and then to the University of
Louisville, where she studied with Ulfert Wilke. Other artists she
studied with include Carlos Merida, Worden Day, Guy Pène du Bois
and Juro Kubicek.
She was on the staff of the Art Center School in Louisville
from the 1940s to the 1970s and was a lecturer in art at the
University of Louisville. She had been a member of the National
Association of Women Painters and Sculptors since 1938.
The artist actively exhibited her work from the 1930s through
the 1980s, with shows at the Art Club of Louisville, the
University of Louisville, the Louisville Art Center, the Ruth
Sherman and Morton galleries in New York, the Swearingen Gallery
in Louisville and the Brooklyn Museum. Among the cities she showed
in were Miami, Sarasota and Palm Beach, Florida, San Diego,
California, Bristol, Virginia, Dallas, Texas, Cincinnati, Ohio,
Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Montpellier, France.
She is in numerous private and institutional collections,
including the Philadelphia Print Club, the J.B. Speed Art Museum,
the Seagram Collection of Kentucky Art, the Evansville Museum of
Art, History and Science in Indiana, the Columbia Museum of Art in
South Carolina and the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New
York,
