biografía de Eleanor Parke CUSTIS (1897-1983)

Lugar de nacimiento: Washington, DC

Lugar de defunción: Gloucester, MA

Direcciones: Washington, DC; Gloucester, MA, 1960

Profesión: Painter, etcher, woodblock printer, illustrator, miniature painter, photographer

Estudios: Corcoran Art Sch., with E. Tarbell, 1915-25; privately with Henry B. Snell in Boothbay Harbor, ME, summers of 1924-25

Exposiciones: Wash. AC, 1925, (solo), 1929, 1935 (solo); AIC, American WC, 1926, 1936; Corcoran Gal., 1927 (solo); Soc. Wash. Artists; Wash. WCC; Wash. AC; NAWPS; AWCS; NAC; Min. P., S. & G. Soc. of Wash.; Vose Galleries, Boston; Randolph-Macon Sch., 1930 (solo); Grand Central AG, NYC, 1933 (solo), 1934 (solo), 1945 (solo); Greater Wash. Indep. Exhib., 1935; Akron AI, 1940 (solo); Massillon Mus., 1940 (solo); Brooklyn Inst., 1946 (photography solo); Bakker Gal., Cambridge, MA, 1986 (retrospective)

Asociaciones: AWCS; NAC; Wash. WCC; Soc. Wash. Artists; North Shore AA; New Haven PCC; Boston AC; NAWA; NYWCC; ASMP; Wash. AC

Obra: New Haven (CT) Public Library; Adams Sch., Wash., D.C.

Comentarios: Best known for her gouaches of the wharves, quaint streets, and beach scenes of the Cape Ann, MA, region and for her pictorialist photographs. She was most active as a painter between 1924-35. She painted in France, Holand, Italy, and Switzerland on three trips, 1926-29. By 1933, she was exhibiting both pictorialist photographs and paintings, and cruised the Mediterranean, visiting Cairo. In 1937 and 1938 she traveled to Central and South America. She was also an accomplished miniaturist and illustrator of children's books. Her works appeared in national magazines such as Country Life and House Beautiful. By the mid 1940s, she was absorbed by photography, an interest since age 12. In later years she spent less time in Georgetown and settled permanently in Gloucester in 1960. Author: Composition and Pictures.

Fuentes: WW59; exh. cat., Bakker Gal., Cambridge, MA (1986); WW47; McMahan, Artists of Washington, D.C.; Pisano, One Hundred Years...the National Association of Women Artists, 43; Art by American Women: ...the Collection of L.and A. Sellars, 66.