Biografie von Florence (Fitch) WHITEHILL (XX)

Birth place: Hillsdale, NY

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Painter

Studied: Mass. College Art, Boston; Grand Central School Art

Exhibited: All. Artists Am., NAD, 1944-52; AAPL Grand Nat., New York, 1947-72 (9 shows); Catharine Lorillard Wolfe AC Ann., 1949-72 (best in show, 1953 & best watercolor, 1968); Acad. AA, Fine Arts Mus., Springfield, MA, 1956-58, 1964 & 1967; Nat. Lg. Am. Pen Women Biennial, SI, Wash., DC, 1958 (award of honor for watercolor).

Member: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe AC (pres., 1953-56; corresp. secy., 1959-71); AAPL; Acad. Artists Assoc.; Nat. Lg. Am Pen Women (state art chmn., 1964-66; NY branch treasurer, 1972-73); Royal Soc. Arts, London (life fellow).

Work: New York Hist. Soc.; East Hampton (NY) Soc.; Tamassee DAR School, SC.

Comments: Preferred medium: watercolors.

Sources: WW73; Mary Barbara Reinmuth, The Pen Woman (New York Branch, Nat. L. Am. Pen Women, winter 1957-58).