Working in pastel and oil, Elizabeth Washington was a renowned painter of portraits and landscapes. Born in 1871, in Siegfried's Bridge, Pennsylvania, Washington was the great-grandniece of the first... Read full biography
Working in pastel and oil, Elizabeth Washington was a renowned painter of portraits and landscapes. Born in 1871, in Siegfried's Bridge, Pennsylvania, Washington was the great-grandniece of the first President of the United States. As such, she was a member of the Colonial Dames of America and the... Read full biography
Working in pastel and oil, Elizabeth Washington was a renowned painter of portraits and landscapes. Born in 1871, in Siegfried's Bridge, Pennsylvania, Washington was the great-grandniece of the first President of the United States. As such, she was a member of the Colonial Dames of America and the Magna Carta Dames, but her true devotion was to art. Washington studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art (now the Philadelphia College of Art) and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the... Read full biography
Working in pastel and oil, Elizabeth Washington was a renowned painter of portraits and landscapes. Born in 1871, in Siegfried's Bridge, Pennsylvania, Washington was the great-grandniece of the first President of the United States. As such, she was a member of the Colonial Dames of America and the Magna Carta Dames, but her true devotion was to art. Washington studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art (now the Philadelphia College of Art) and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Hugh Breckenridge and Fred Wagner. She exhibited at the Academy throughout her lifetime; there she was awarded the Toppan Prize (1913); the Cresson Traveling Fellowship (1912); and the Mary L. Smith Prize (1917, 1934). Washington... Read full biography
Working in pastel and oil, Elizabeth Washington was a renowned painter of portraits and landscapes. Born in 1871, in Siegfried's Bridge, Pennsylvania, Washington was the great-grandniece of the first President of the United States. As such, she was a member of the Colonial Dames of America and the Magna Carta Dames, but her true devotion was to art. Washington studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art (now the Philadelphia College of Art) and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Hugh Breckenridge and Fred Wagner. She exhibited at the Academy throughout her lifetime; there she was awarded the Toppan Prize (1913); the Cresson Traveling Fellowship (1912); and the Mary L. Smith Prize (1917, 1934). Washington also exhibited widely across the country including what is now the Springfield Museum, Utah (1927); the Corc... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (23)
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New Hope for American Art A Comprehensive Showing of Important 20th Century Paintings from and Surrounding the New Hope Art Colony
2005
Alterman, James M.
612 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Espana: American Artists and the Spanish Experience (Hollis Taggart Galleries) (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Boone, M Elizabeth
112 pages (color)
Breaking Boundaries: An Art in Embassies Program American Women Artists in France, ca. 1880-1930 (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Dunn, David (Introduction)
24 pages (color)
Record of the Carnegie Institute International Exhibition, 1896-1996 (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Biennial Exhibition Record of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Falk, Peter Hastings
335 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900
1985
Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie
851 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present
1973
Collins, Jim L.
426 pages
Permanent Collection Catalog Springville Museum of Art
1972
Forster, Peggy; Julie Snow Birkhimer; Mae Huntington
75 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1953
1953
Gilbert, Dorothy B.
557 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1947
1947
Gilbert, Dorothy, (Editor)
685 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit