Biografie von Gertrude FISKE (1878-1961)

Birth place: Boston, MA

Death place: Weston, MA?

Addresses: NYC; Weston, Boston, MA

Profession: Portrait and landscape painter, etcher

Studied: BMFA Sch. with E. Tarbell, F. Benson, P. Hale, Her most influential teacher was Charles Woodbury, whose classes at Ogunquit she also attended c.1904-12.

Exhibited: PAFA, 1913-40; Pan.-Pacific Exposition, 1915 (silver medal); Vose Gal., Boston, 1917, 1969 & 1987 (solo); Wilmington Soc. of FA, 1921; NAD, 1922 (Shaw Prize), 1925 (Clark prize), 1929, 1931, 1935; NAWA, 1925; New Haven PCC, 1925, 1929; Springfield Art Lg., 1925, 1931; Women's Int. Expo, Detroit, 192; Ogunquit Art Center, 1932; Soc. Indp. A.; Gld. Boston Artists (solo), 1916, 1920, 1924, 1927, 1933; RISD, 1917 (solo); Cleveland MA, 1917 (solo); Wellesley College Mus., 1920 (solo); Farnsworth Mus., 1920 (solo); AIC; Corcoran Gal, 1912-41; Carnegie; BMFA Sch.; Nassau County Mus.; Baltimore MA; Detroit Inst. Art; Brooklyn Mus.; New York World's Fair, 1939; Copley Soc.; McNay AI, 1970; Duxbury AA; Schoelkopf Gal, NYC, 1969 & 1981 (solo); Columbia MA, 1975 (solo); Charles H. Woodbury and His Students," Ogunquit Mus. Am. Art, 1998. Awards: silver medal, Pan-Pacific Expo, 1915; prizes, CAFA, 1918, 1925 (portrait prize) "

Member: ANA, 1922; NA, 1930; Boston Guild of Artists (founder); Concord AA (founding member); CAFA; New Haven PCC; AFA; Mass. State Art Comm. (1st woman, 1929-30); Ogunquit AA (founding director); NAWPS; Grand Central AG; Chicago SE; Boston SE; NAC; Cosmopolitan Cl, NYC; NAD; Copley Soc.; Boston AG (founding member)

Work: PAFA; John Herron AI; Detroit Inst. Art; Boston Mus FA; NAD (portrait, Chas. H. Woodbury")"

Comments: A leading woman artist of the Boston School. She was a bold Impressionist who painted mostly portraits, but is also known for her New England landscapes and beach scenes painted from 1915-30 when she was most prolific. Resided with Charlotte Butler, Amy Cabot and Elizabeth Sawtelle near the Woodbury Studio--the group was known as The Pine Hill Girls." Also painted at Fenway Studios, Boston, 1947-60.

Sources: WW59; WW47; exh. cat., Vose Gal., 1987; Vose Galleries, Mary Bradish Titcomb and Her Contemporaries, 40-41; Charles Woodbury and His Students.