Isabel Branson Cartwright
Born
Isabel Parke Branson

September 4, 1885[1]
Coatesville, Pennsylvania
DiedJune 7, 1966(1966-06-07) (aged 80)
Carmel, California
EducationPhiladelphia School of Design for Women
Known forPhiladelphia Ten
Spouse
John Reagan Cartwright
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(m. 1910)​
[2]
AwardsAlumnae Award 1906

Isabel Parke Branson Cartwright (September 4, 1885 – June 7, 1966) was an American artist born in Coatesville, Pennsylvania.[3]

Cartwright attended the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. In 1906, she won the 'Alumnae Award', a European fellowship allowing her to go abroad for a year.[4] This enabled her to study with Frank Brangwyn, a figure painter in London, for a year, and to travel to Holland, France, and Italy. Other teachers included Elliott Daingerfield and Henry B. Snell.[5]

In November 1910, she married John Reagan Cartwright in El Paso, Texas. They moved to Terrell, Texas until her husband's death in 1917. She went on to have one-woman art shows in San Antonio and Fort Worth, Texas.[3]

After her Texas period, Isabel Cartwright returned to Philadelphia where she joined the Philadelphia Ten.[4][6] Considered one of the mainstays of the group, she exhibited in all sixty-five shows that it held, over a twenty-eight year span from 1917 to 1945.[7]

Cartwright had a house in the 1940s on Monhegan Island, off the coast of Maine, where she liked to paint.[3] She exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1921-1943), and at the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.[4]

In 1953, Cartwright moved to the artists' colony of Carmel, California to live with her sister Sarah Branson Cornell.[4] Cartwright died in Ross, California in 1966.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1669-1999
  2. ↑ Texas, Select County Marriage Index, 1837-1965
  3. 1 2 3 Powers, John E.; Powers, Deborah Daniels (2000). Texas painters, sculptors & graphic artists : a biographical dictionary of artists in Texas before 1942. Austin, Tex.: Woodmont Books. p. 84. ISBN 978-0966962208.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Talbott, Page; Sydney, Patricia Tanis (1998). The Philadelphia ten:a women's artist group, 1917-1945. Kansas CIty, MO.: American Art Review Press.
  5. ↑ Official Catalogue 16th Annual Loan Collection. State Fair of Texas and Mexican National Exhibition. 1921. pp. 8–9. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
  6. ↑ Bradley, Lauren. "The Philadelphia Ten". Moore College of Art & Design. Archived from the original on 30 March 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
  7. ↑ "The Philadelphia Ten: A Women's Artist Group 1917-1945". Westmoreland Museum of American Art. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  8. ↑ Worley, Michael Preston. "Isabel Parke Branson Cartwright". HL Chalfant. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
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