Ethel Blanchard Collver Figural Oil Painting

Item Details

Ethel Blanchard Collver (Massachusetts; 1875-1955)
Untitled, early 20th century
Oil painting on canvas board
Signed to the lower left

American Impressionist Ethel Blanchard Collver is known for her paintings of landscapes, genre scenes, and portraits of children. She studied at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston under Frank W. Benson, Edmund C. Tarbel and Philip L. Hale, then continued her studies with Charles Hawthorne after graduating. Around 1904, she began her specialty in miniatures on shell and portraits of children. Cullver moved to Paris for a year to study at the Académie Colarossi under Charles Guerino, Bernard Naudin, and Henri Morrissey. In the early 1930s, the artist continued her studies in Paris under Audre L’Hote and Amédée Ozenfant. In 1934, Collver was the recipient of the Olive Nobel Prize for Decorative Painting from the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. Throughout her life, she exhibited at multiple institutions including the Salon of the Societe Nationale des Beaux Artes; the Corcoran Gallery of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Albright–Knox Art Gallery, among many others.

Condition

- wear to edges of frame; dust and accretions present to painting and frame; surface wear present to painting; billow/warping to canvas board; minor staining to fabric insert.

Dimensions

- measures frame; visible image measures 15.75" W x 12.75" H.

Item #

ITMG463092