Ethel Blanchard Collver

Ethel Blanchard Collver (1875 - November 10, 1955) was an American Impressionist artist and teacher who was best known for her portraits of children, scenes of daily life, and landscapes.[1]

Self Portrait by Ethel Blanchard Collver

Biography

Born and raised in Boston, Ethel Blanchard Collver studied at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her early work was influenced by teachers at the school; Frank W. Benson, Edmund C. Tarbel and Philip L. Hale. After graduation she studied briefly with Charles Hawthorne.[2] Her subject matter included children's portraits, scenes of daily life, and landscapes. She used a variety of mediums which included oils on canvas, miniatures on shell, drawings in pencil and charcoal, water colors, and etchings.[3]

By 1904 Collver began specializing in miniatures and portrait paintings, becoming a prolific and recognized portrait painter of children. Although continuing portrait work throughout her career, she broadened her artwork interests while spending a year (1919 - 1920) in Paris at the Académie Colarossi as a pupil of Charles Guerino, Bernard Naudin, and Henri Morrissey. While studying in Paris her specialties expanded to include daily life scenes and landscapes. In 1932 she returned to Paris to study with Audre L'Hote and Amédée Ozenfant.[4]

She married the travel writer Leon L. Collver in 1906 and together they began traveling the world. In addition to portrait painting, Collver's work reflects her experiences in Japan, France, Italy, Spain, Greece, England, the Dalmatian Coast, Jerusalem, Algiers, Cairo, Jamaica and the West Indies. When she was not traveling abroad, she lived in several U.S. cities in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and Florida. As with her foreign paintings, her domestic daily life paintings reflect those East Coast locations. Whether foreign or domestic, the subject matter of her daily life scenes focused especially on children and women at parks and gardens, at the beach and at marketplaces.[5]'

As a recognized minor artist Collver presented lectures and taught art workshops in Boston, New York, Greenwich and Ft. Lauderdale. Also, she organized and led a two-month traveling art workshop to Paris.[6]

Recognition

While studying in Paris in 1920, Collver's oil painting titled "February in the Luxembourg" was selected for exhibition at the Spring Salon of the Societe Nationale des Beaux Artes.[7] Her work has been exhibited in several museums and galleries on the East Coast including the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the National Academy of Design in New York, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, the Copley Society of Boston, Doll and Richards in Boston, the Allbright Museum in Buffalo, and in Chicago at the American Art Today exhibition at the World's Fair 1939.[8]

In 1934 the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors awarded Collver the Olive Nobel Prize for Decorative Painting for her oil painting entitled "Manhattan Patterns".[9]

References
  1. "OBITUARIES", Corpus Christi Times, November 11, 1955; Who's Who in the East Vol 2, Boston: Larkin, Roosevelt & Larkin, 1948, p 365; "Overview" and "Quick Facts",www.AskArt-keywords/Ethel Blanchard Collver, p 1; Broderick, Catherine, "Our Noted Neighbors", Daily News Graphic, Greenwich, Conn., September 12, 1933; "Music amd Art: Portrait Drawings by E. Blanchard Collver", The Christian Science Monitor, February 23, 1923; "Mrs. Collver's Work Exhibited at Darien", Greenwich Press,June 20, 1929
  2. Petteys, Chris (et al), Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900,Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1985, p 153; Broderick, "Our Noted Neighbors", Daily News Graphic,September 12, 1933,; Doran, Geneviere C. (editor), Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers by Mantle Fielding, Green Farms, Connecticut: Modern Books and Crafts, Inc., 1986, p 72.
  3. "Exhibitions", American Art News Vol 20, No 39, New York, August 19, 1922, p 9, JSTOR www.jstor.org/stable 25590001; Who's Who in the East, 1948, p 365; "Exhibitions",American Art News, Vol 19, NO 20, February 26, 1921, p.3, JSTOR www.jstor.org/stable 25589769; "Mrs. Collver, Guild Exhibitor, Likes to Paint Children",Darien Observer, Darien, Connecticut,June 1929; "Music and Art", The Christian Science Monitor, February 23, 1923.
  4. Broderick, "Our Noted Neighbors", Daily News Graphic, September 12, 1933; Doran, Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers", 1986, p 72; Who's Who in the East,1948, p 365; Woodward, Sidney, "Paintings of Boston Artist on Exhibit", Boston Post, December 10, 1920; "The Fine Arts: Mrs. Collver's Pictures", Boston Evening Transcript, December 9, 1920.
  5. "Exhibitions", American Art News, August 19, 1922, p 9, JSTOR www.jstor.org/stable 25589769; "Native Quarter, Kingston, Jamaica - Etching by Ethel Blanchard Collver", The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, March 6, 1931; Broderick, "Our Noted Neighbors", Daily News Graphic, September 12, 1933; M.J. Curl, "Boston Artists and Sculptors Talk of their Work and Ideals", XVIII, Ethel Blanchard Collver", Boston Herald, November or December, 1920; "Mrs. Collver, Guild Exhibitor, Likes to Paint Children", Darien Observer, June 20, 1929; "Exhibitions", American Art News, November 12, 1921, p 9, JSTOR www.jstor.org/stable 25589853; "Mrs. Collver's Work Exhibited at the Darien", The Greenwich Press, June 20, 1929.
  6. Falk, Peter Hastings (editor), Who Was Who in American Art 1564 - 1979, Madison, Connecticut: Sound View Press, 1999, p 701; Petteys, Dictionary of Women Artists, 1985, p 153; Broderick, Daily News Graphic, September 12, 1933; The Art News, An International Pictorial Newspaper of Art, March 15, 1924, p 6, JSTOR www.jstor.org/stable 25591383; The Art News, June 14, 1924, p 4, JSTOR www.jstor.org/stable 25591428; Who's Who in the East, 1948, p 365.
  7. Petteys, Dictionary of Women Artists, 1985, p 153; Falk, Who was Who in American Art, 1999, p 701; "Exhibitions", American Art News, February 26, 1921, p 3, JSTOR www.jstor.org/stable 25589769; "The Fine Arts, Boston Artist in Paris", Boston Transcript, April 1, 1920.
  8. Who's Who in the East, 1948, p 365; Petteys, Dictionary of Women Artists, 1985, p 153; Broderick,"Our Noted Neighbors", Daily News Graphic, September 12, 1933; Falk, Who Was Who in American Art, 1999, p 701; "Native Quarter, Kingston, JAMAICA", The Christian Science Monitor, March 6, 1931; "Women Artists Hold Exhibition at Beach Gallery", The Miami Daily News, December 29, 1940.
  9. Who's Who in the East, 1948, p 365; Falk, Who Was Who in American Art, 1999, p 701; Read, Helen Appleton, "Women Painters and Sculptors Give Good Account of Themselves in Annual Show, Women Artists", Daily Eagle, New York, January 14, 1934; "Greenwich Artist is Awarded Honor", The Greenwich Press, January 18, 1934.
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