Edith Catlin Phelps

Edith Catlin Phelps (1874-1961) - Portrait of a Farmer - P3234

Regular price $1,500.00

A superb portrait set in a beautifully accomplished Western landscape, this work displays her deeply humanistic bent.

Measures 25" x 30" in a 32 1/2" x 37 1/2" frame.

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Biography from Crocker Art Museum Store

Painter, etcher. Born in NYC on April 16, 1874, Edith Catlin studied with Charles Hawthorne, William Merritt Chase, and at Académie Julian in Paris.

The wife of Stowe Phelps, she lived in Connecticut and NYC before settling in Santa Barbara, California in the 1930s where she remained until her death on July 8, 1961.

Member:
Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts; Allied Artists of America; Santa Barbara Art Association.

Exhibitions:
Connecticut Academy of Fine Art, 1920, 1922 (awards); Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Art Institiute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Musuem of Art, California State Fair, 1938; San Diego Fine Art Society, Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939; Oakland Art Gallery, 1939; Santa Barbara Museum, 1945 (solo); Madonna Festival of Los Angeles, 1951, 1956.

Literature:

NYC Courthouse, WAA; AAA 1919-33; WWAA 1936-59; WWPC 1947; FId; AAW; KOV; DR; Santa Barbara News Press, 7-8-1961 (obit).

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