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Gertrude Horsford Fiske

Gertrude Horsford Fiske (1879 - 1961) was active/lived in Massachusetts, Maine.  Gertrude Fiske is known for Portrait, figure, landscape and still life painting.

A native New Englander, Gertrude Fiske was an Impressionist* figure and landscape painter and a leading woman artist of the Boston School*. She was a founding member of the Guild of Boston Artists* and Art Associations of Concord, Massachusetts and Ogunquit, Maine. She was also an Associate member of the National Academy of Design* in New York and the first woman appointed to the State Art Commission of Massachusetts.

Fiske was a "blue-blood" Bostonian as a direct ancestor of Governor William Bradford. For six years, she attended the School of Drawing and Painting of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston with Edmund Tarbell, Frank Benson, and Philip Hale, and was one of only a few individuals who actually completed the Museum School's seven-year course. During the summers she painted in Ogunquit with Charles Woodbury, likely the person who had the most influence on her work. Her studios were in Weston and Boston, Massachusetts and Ogunquit, Maine, "her favored summer resort througho   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4917 characters.]  Artist bio

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.  askART lists Gertrude Horsford Fiske in 1 of its research Essays. Gertrude Horsford Fiske has 9 artist signature examples available in our database.

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Facts about Gertrude Horsford Fiske

   Publications  Book References:  36
Magazine References:  7

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7 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Gertrude Horsford Fiske
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Wellesley Weston An American Master: Gertrude Fiske (1879-1961) January 2019 Savage, Robert, M.D. Yes
American Fine Art Magazine Hunt for Treasure: Dr. Savage Searches High and Low for the Works in His Extensive Collection May 2018 O'Hern, John Yes
American Art Review Envisioning New England December 2004 Grinnell & Hunter Yes
American Art Review Guild of Boston Artists: 90th Anniv October 2004 Curtis, Judith A Yes
American Art Review The Ogunquit Museum Celebrates August 2003 Culver, Michael Yes
American Art Review Women's Perspective at Boston Guild October 2001 Lightman, Jean; P Ingbretson Yes
American Art Review Bruce Museum June 1997 Hall-Duncan, Nancy Yes
36 Book References for Gertrude Horsford Fiske
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2002 Spanierman Gallery Art for the New Collector 1840-2001
(Exhibition catalog)
48 Yes
2001 Hirshler, Erica E A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston, 1870-1940 227 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Vose Galleries Mary Bradish Titcomb and Her Contemporaries at the Fenway Studios
(Exhibition catalog)
54 Yes
1997 Vose Galleries Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Art and Collecting in America, Part Two 35 Yes
1996 Addison Gallery Addison Gallery of American Art 65 Years A Selective Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)
512 Yes
1991 Baekland, Frederick Images of America The Painter's Eye, 1833-1925
(Exhibition catalog)
160 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)
622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)
612 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
538 No
1989 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1989 Gerdts, Abigail Booth An American Collection Paintings and Sculpture from the NAD
(Exhibition catalog)
208 Yes
1989 Maass, R. Andrew (Foreward); Valerie Ann Leeds (Intro) At the Water's Edge: 19th and 20th Century American Beach Scenes Tampa Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)
140 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1987 Tragard, Louise; Patricia Hart and W.L. Copithorne A Century of Color, 1886-1986: Ogunquit, Maine's Art Colony
(Exhibition catalog)
140 Yes
1987 Vose Galleries Gertrude Fiske Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)
0 Yes
1987 Vose Galleries Gertrude Fiske (1878-1961)
(Exhibition catalog)
24 Yes
1986 Gammell, R H Ives The Boston Painters 1900-1930 204 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 851 No
1983 National Academy of Design Artists by Themselves Artist's Portrait's from the National Academy of Design
(Exhibition catalog)
175 Yes
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1981 Nassau County Museum Animals in American Art 1880's-1980's
(Exhibition catalog)
64 Yes
1980 Pierce, Patricia Jobe Edmund C Tarbell and the Boston School of Painting (1889-1980) 285 Yes
1975 Weber, Nicholas Fox American Painters Of the Impressionist Period Rediscovered 104 Yes
1973 Collins, Jim L. Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present 426 No
1969 Philbrook Art Center The American Sense of Reality
(Exhibition catalog)
56 No
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1937 Breckinridge, Mrs. H. (essay) Second National Exhibition of American Art Summer 1937
(Exhibition catalog)
32 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1925 National Academy of Design Commemorative Exhibition 1825-1925
(Exhibition catalog)
160 No
1915 Walter, John; Pedro Lemos Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit 112 No
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