Landscape and still life painter Eleanor Ahl (1875-1953) was an art teacher in Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1902 she married the artist Henry Hammond Ahl, who achieved financial and artistic success painting portraits and New England scenes which were reproduced as calendars and greeting cards. The couple traveled extensively in Europe and settled in Byfield, Massachusetts in 1920. Eleanor Ahl made watercolor landscapes of the area surrounding her home, and many still life oil paintings. She taught her son, Henry Curtis Ahl, who became a painter, illustrator, and writer. The Ahl family were supporters of the North Shore Art Association, exhibiting there in the inaugural exhibit of 1923; Eleanor Ahl's paintings were featured there again in 2002 in the exhibition Legacy: Artistic Families of the North Shore Art Association. In 1997 her works were also featured at the Cushing House Museum in Newburyport, Massachusetts.

Biography courtesy of Roger King Gallery of Fine Art, www.antiquesandfineart.com/rking