Elizabeth Fisher Washington was born in Siegfried's Bridge, Pennsylvania. She is considered a landscape and miniature painter from the American school. Washington received her formal art training at the Pennsylvania Fine Arts Academy under Hugh Henry Breckenridge (1870- 1937) and Fred Wagner (1864-1940).
Memberships:
Fellowship, P.A.F.A
Plastics Club, Phila.
Artist Alliance of America
Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters
North Shore Art Association, Gloucester, Mass
Awards:
Pan American Exposition 1915 Medal
Mary Smith Prize, P.A.F.A 1917 & 1942
Fellowship Prize, P.A.F.A. 1917
Exhibited:
Chicago Art Institute
Pennsylvania Fine Art Academy 1917-1942
Carnegie Institute 1920-22
Corcorain Gallery, Washington D.C
National Academy of Design 1930
Pan American Exposition 1915
Woodmere Art Gallery 1941-1945
Cape May, NJ 1939-1945
Collections:
Fellowship Collection, P.A.F.A.
Civic Club, Phila, PA.
Pierce Business College, Century Collection
Smith College
Municipal Art Gallery, Trenton, NJ
High School Gallery, Springville, Utah
Boyerstown Gallery, Pa
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Pa
Allentown Gallery, Pa
Philadelphia Civic Center
Oak Lane Review Collection
Womens Club, Westchester, Pa
Listed:
Mantle Fieldings, Dictionary of American Painters & Engravers
The Annual Exhibition Records of the P.A.F.A., vol. II, 1876-1913
The Exhibition Records of the Chicago Art Institute
Index of Artists, Mallett
Women Artists in America, 18th Century to The Present
Who Was Who in American Art.
Biography courtesy of Roughton Galleries, www.antiquesandfineart.com/roughton
|