Isabel Branson Cartwright

Isabel Parke Branson Cartwright (September 4, 1885 – June 7, 1966) was an American artist born in Coatesville, Pennsylvania.[3]

Cartwright attended the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. In 1906, she won the 'Alumnae Award', a European fellowship allowing her to go abroad for a year.[4] This enabled her to study with Frank Brangwyn, a figure painter in London, for a year, and to travel to Holland, France, and Italy. Other teachers included Elliott Daingerfield and Henry B. Snell.[5]

In November 1910, she married John Reagan Cartwright in El Paso, Texas. They moved to Terrell, Texas until her husband's death in 1917. She went on to have one-woman art shows in San Antonio and Fort Worth, Texas.[3]

After her Texas period, Isabel Cartwright returned to Philadelphia where she joined the Philadelphia Ten.[4][6] Considered one of the mainstays of the group, she exhibited in all sixty-five shows that it held, over a twenty-eight year span from 1917 to 1945.[7]

Cartwright had a house in the 1940s on Monhegan Island, off the coast of Maine, where she liked to paint.[3] She exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1921-1943), and at the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.[4]

In 1953, Cartwright moved to the artists' colony of Carmel, California to live with her sister Sarah Branson Cornell.[4] Cartwright died in Ross, California in 1966.[8]