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Sarah (Speight) Blakeslee

Sarah (Speight) Blakeslee (1912 - 2005) was active/lived in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Illinois.  Sarah Blakeslee is known for Landscape, still life, and portrait painting, teaching.

Known for her painterly, naturalistic landscapes and still-life images, Sarah Jane Blakeslee received her art training in Realism* and Impressionism* and was profoundly influenced by the work of Paul Cezanne.

Blakeslee was born in Evanston, Illinois in 1912.  She attended the Art Institute of Chicago*, Illinois in 1926, followed by the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C.  Additional instruction was obtained from Catherine Critcher, an artist recognized for her Native American portrait paintings.  In 1931 she began studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts* in Philadelphia under the artist Francis Speight.  As an instructor and landscape painter, Speight was influential on the artwork she produced.  Blakeslee and Speight later married.

Sarah Blakeslee was awarded the Cresson Scholarship* from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1933, enabling her to travel and paint in Europe for a year.  It was durin   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8776 characters.]  Artist bio

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