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Your Price: $ 17000.00
Item Number: paint001
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Condition: Used
Manufacturer: Unknown
45 inch ht X 42 inch wd in frame, 38.5 X 35.5 canvas, signed dated lwr. rt, canvas mounted on board with blown out gold leaf halos, fine orig as found condition, no repair or restoration, purchased from convent where it had been left by estate will, exhibition tags and letter from convent on reverse, title; Holy Communion Saint Catherine of Siene alter piece study, 1928
A teacher of art as well as a painter in oil and watercolor and muralist, Edith Emerson was active in Philadelphia where she was president and curator of the Violet Oakley Memorial Foundation. She was also a teacher at the Agnes Irwin School from 1916 to 1927, lecturer at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art 1929 to 1936, and instructor of art history at Chestnut Hill College 1948 to 1956.
Edith Emerson, who was director and president of the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia, spent much of her life in a "Boston marriage" – the name given to a household in which two women lived together – with her companion Violet Oakley, another well known Philadelphia area woman artist.
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