Biografie von Alice SCHILLE (1869-1955)

Birth place: Columbus, OH

Death place: Columbus

Addresses: Columbus

Profession: Painter

Studied: Columbus Art Sch., 1891-93; ASL, 1897-99; NY Sch. Artwith W.M. Chase, K. Cox, 1897-99; Acad. Colarossi , Paris, 1903-04; privately in Paris with R.F.X. Prinet, J.R. Collin, G.C.E. Courtois & Wm.M. Chase

Exhibited: Louvre, Paris, 1900; AIC, 1904-28; Corcoran Ga.l biennials, 1907-12 (3 times); PAFA Ann., 1907-16, 1928; PAFA, 1915 (Phila. WCC prize); Wash. WCC at CGA, 1908 (Corcoran Prize); NY Women's AC, 1908-09 (prizes); Jackson AA, 1910 (first solo); Cincinnati Art Mus., 1911 (solo), 1915 (solo); Soc. Western Artists, 1906-14 (prize, 1913); Ohio State Fair, 1914 (6 first prizes); Pan-Pacific Expo, San Fran., 1915 (gold for watercolor); Columbus AL, 1912 (solo), 1919 (1st prize), 1920 (Stevens prize); St. Louis AM, 1917 ("Six American Women"); Mus. New Mexico, 1920 (solo); Columbus Gal. FA, 1921 (solo), 1932 (solo), 1964 (solo); NAWA, 1929 (prize); Women's Int. Assn., Detroit, 1930 (prize); Phila. WCC, 1932 (first prize); El Paso Mus. Art, 1972 (retrospective); Vose Gal., Boston, 1982 (solo); High Mus. Art, Atlanta, 1986 ("Am. Post-Impressionism"); Nat. Mus. Women in Arts, 1987 (traveling survey); Keny & Johnson Gal., Columbus, 1987 (retrospective); Columbus Mus. Art, 1988 (traveled to Cheekwood FAC, Nashville); Canton AI and Hickory Mus. Art, 1989

Member: AWCS; NAWA; NYWCC; Chicago WCC; Phila. WCC; Boston WCC; Soc. Western Artists

Work: PAFA; Indianapolis MA; Phila. AC; Columbus MA; M.H. de Young Mus.; Colby College Mus. Art; Canton AI (OH); Capitol Univ. Columbus, OH; El Paso Mus. Art; High Mus. Art, Atlanta; McNay Art Mus., San Antonio; Ohio State Univ.; Univ. Club, Columbus

Comments: One of the leading women watercolor painters, she worked in the Post-Impressionist style. She traveled and painted landscapes from New England to Europe, North Africa, Corsica, the Middle East, England, Norway and Greece, to California and the Yucatan. She painted her first pointillist watercolor in 1909, and by 1913 she was the subject of a feature article in Int. Studio. She painted and exhibited in the Gloucester area during the summers of 1916-18 and began to employ Fauvist colors and expressive daubing. In 1922, she painted her first series of North African watercolors and would return there in 1929. From 1926-47 she spent many summers in the southwest and Mexico. In the 1930s-40s she traveled in Central America and New Mexico. Teaching: Columbus Art School, OH, 1902-48.

Sources: WW53; WW47; Tufts, American Women Artists, cat. no. 69; exh. catalogues cited above from Vose Galleries (1982), High Mus. Art (1986), Keny & Johnson Gal, Columbus (1987), and Columbus MA (1988); Trenton, ed. Independent Spirits, 159; Falk, Exh. Record Series.