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1890 Trenton, South Carolina - 1981 Alvaton, Georgia. Known for: Southern rural genre, urban scene, still life and portrait painting.
WENONAH DAY BELL (1890–1981). Wenonah Day Bell captured the importance of women to South Carolina’s thriving peach industry during the 1930s and 1940s in Peach Packing, Spartanburg County. Born in... Read full biography
WENONAH DAY BELL (1890–1981). Wenonah Day Bell captured the importance of women to South Carolina’s thriving peach industry during the 1930s and 1940s in Peach Packing, Spartanburg County. Born in Trenton, a crossroads situated about one hundred miles southwest of the locale depicted, Bell spent... Read full biography
WENONAH DAY BELL (1890–1981). Wenonah Day Bell captured the importance of women to South Carolina’s thriving peach industry during the 1930s and 1940s in Peach Packing, Spartanburg County. Born in Trenton, a crossroads situated about one hundred miles southwest of the locale depicted, Bell spent much of her youth moving between small towns in the Piedmont region, including Spartanburg. Eventually, the family settled in Gainesville, Georgia, after her father, a Baptist clergyman, established his... Read full biography
WENONAH DAY BELL (1890–1981). Wenonah Day Bell captured the importance of women to South Carolina’s thriving peach industry during the 1930s and 1940s in Peach Packing, Spartanburg County. Born in Trenton, a crossroads situated about one hundred miles southwest of the locale depicted, Bell spent much of her youth moving between small towns in the Piedmont region, including Spartanburg. Eventually, the family settled in Gainesville, Georgia, after her father, a Baptist clergyman, established his ministry there. Not long thereafter, Bell began her artistic education, which took her well beyond her Southern birthplace. Between 1908 and 1929, Bell attended Brenau College in Gainesville, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in... Read full biography
WENONAH DAY BELL (1890–1981). Wenonah Day Bell captured the importance of women to South Carolina’s thriving peach industry during the 1930s and 1940s in Peach Packing, Spartanburg County. Born in Trenton, a crossroads situated about one hundred miles southwest of the locale depicted, Bell spent much of her youth moving between small towns in the Piedmont region, including Spartanburg. Eventually, the family settled in Gainesville, Georgia, after her father, a Baptist clergyman, established his ministry there. Not long thereafter, Bell began her artistic education, which took her well beyond her Southern birthplace. Between 1908 and 1929, Bell attended Brenau College in Gainesville, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Académie Colarossi in Paris, and the Hans Hofmann School on the Italian island of Capri, among other institutions. Such extensiv... Read full biography
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Keywords (18)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
Art Style
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
Art Subject
- •Rural Scene, Countryside, Farms and/or Barns
- •Urban Scene, City Genre
Art School
- •Academy Colarossi, Paris, Student
- •Hans Hofmann School of Art, Student
- •Parsons, The New School for Design, Teacher
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Cresson Traveling Scholarship
- •Mary Smith Prize, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
- •Toppan Prize, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Society of Independent Artists--
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Detroit Institute of Art
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts