Alice Schille Genre Scene Oil Painting "Girl Sewing", circa 1926
Item Details
Alice Schille (Ohio/New Mexico, 1869 – 1955)
Girl Sewing, circa 1926
Oil painting on board
Unsigned
Exhibition label to verso from Ohio State Fair Exhibition of Fine Arts, 1926
Provenance
Berner’s Auction Gallery, Antique & Fine Art Auction, January 16, 2011, lot #640
Private collection, Cincinnati, OH
Alice Schille was born to a wealthy family in Columbus, Ohio in 1869. She knew from a young age that she wanted to be an artist, and diligently pursued her artistic career with support from her family. She attended the Columbus Art School from 1891 -1893, returning as a member of the faculty from 1902 until 1948. She moved to New York to study at the Arts Students League from 1897 -1897, and remained in the city to study under notable painters William Merritt Chase and Kenyon Cox at the New York School of Art.
Schille first traveled to Europe in 1902, and had five paintings accepted at the Society Nationale des Beux Arts in Paris in 1904, a significant accomplishment early in her career. Schille continued to travel extensively throughout her career, including visits to New Mexico, France, Guatemala, Mexico, North Africa and Turkey. Her painting style was influenced by her travels as well as the contemporary painters of her time, including Vincent Van Gogh, Georges Seurat and Henri Matisse.
Known for her unsentimental portrayals of ordinary life, Schille painted in both the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist style, typically depicting women, children, markets and landscapes with and without figures. She is considered one of the preeminent American watercolorists and her work resides in the permanent collections of many distinguished institutions, including the Columbus Museum of Art, the Fine Art Museum of San Francisco, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Art Club of Philadelphia, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Ohio State University, the Colby College Art Museum, the El Paso Museum of Art and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. In 1987 her work was included in the inaugural exhibition of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC.
Condition
- small spot of paint loss to upper right side; darkening to varnish; minor wear to frame.
Dimensions
- measures frame; visible image measures 19.5" W x 23.5" H.
Item #
ITMG638583
