Biografie von Patty Prather THUM (1853-1926)
Birth place: Louisville, KY
Addresses: Louisville, KY, 1885-99
Profession: Painter, illustrator, writer
Studied: H.V. Ingen, Vassar College; ASL with Chase, Mowbray, Wiles; MMA Sch. FA.; Thomas Eakins, mid-1880s at Student's Guild, Brooklyn AA
Exhibited: Columbian Expo, Chicago, 1893; NY State Fair, 1898; Trans-Mississippi Expo, Omaha, NE, 1898; Soc. Landscape Painters, 1898; Cincinnati; St. Louis Expo, 1904; NAD, 1885-99
Member: Louisville AC.
Work: Louisville Pub. Lib.; Univ. Kentucky Art Mus., Lexington
Comments: Specialty: flowers, landscapes, portraits. Some of her works were lithographed and distributed throughout the country. Position: art critic, Louisville Herald.
Sources: WW25; add'l info courtesy of Francis Smith, Bardstown, KY; Jones and Weber, The Kentucky Painter from the Frontier Era to the Great War, 66-67 (w/repro.)