Elizabeth Sawyer Norton - Stanford Campus - Woodblock 1946 AP1736

A gorgeous print. Numbered 37/75. Signed. Image is 6 1/2" x 9 1/2" on an 11" x 16" sheet.

Painter, sculptor, printmaker. Born in Chicago, IL on Dec. 16, 1887. Elizabeth Sawyer Norton studied at the AIC in 1910 followed by work in NYC at the NAD, ASL under DuMond, and the Chase School. After her first visit to California in 1915 to attend the PPIE, she returned in 1919 and settled in Palo Alto where she lived until her death on Aug. 7, 1985. A prolific and versatile artist, her oeuvre includes bronze portrait busts and animals as well as lithographs, etchings, watercolors, and oils. Member: Calif. Society of Etchers; Pacific Art League of Palo Alto; AFA; SF Women Painters. Exh: Macbeth Gallery (NYC); ASL of NY; Herter Gallery (NYC), 1915 (scenes of the PPIE); Stanford Univ., 1920, 1950; Montross Gallery (NYC), 1923; Library of Congress Print Gall