biografia di Elizabeth Fisher WASHINGTON (1871-1953)

Birth place: Siegfried's Bridge, PA

Addresses: Philadelphia 4, PA

Profession: Landscape and miniature painter

Studied: PM School IA; PAFA with Breckenridge, F. Wagner.

Exhibited: PAFA, 1912 (Cresson traveling fellowship), 1913 (Toppan Prize); PAFA Ann., 1916-44 (prize 1917, 1934); Carnegie Inst., 1920-22; Corcoran Gal. biennials, 1916, 1923; Pan-Pacific Expo, 1915; NAD, 1930; St. Louis AM, 1930; Woodmere Art Gal., 1941-45; Cape May, NJ, 1939-45; Phila. Art All.; Plastic Club; PMA; Phila. Sketch Club; AFA; Springville, UT, 1927 (prize); Salons of Am.; AIC; Newman Gal., Phila., 1949, c.1988 (retrospectives)

Member: Art All., Plastic Club, Pr. Club, all of Phila.; Penn. SMP (treasurer); AWCS; Colonial Dames of Am.; Magna Carta Dames; PAFA (fellow)

Work: Springville (UT) H.S. Coll.; Munic. Coll., Trenton, NJ; Smith College; New Century Club, Phila., PA; Pierce Business College, Phila; Boyertown (PA) Gal.; PMA; Allentown (PA) Gal.; Phila. Civic Club; Oak Lane Review Club, Phila.; Women's Club, West Chester, PA.

Comments: An impressionist painter, she was the great-great grandniece of Pres. George Washington.

Sources: WW53; exh. flyer, Newman Gal., Phila. (c.1988); WW47; Falk, Exh. Record Series.