Alice stanley dean acheson wikipedia

American painter (1895–1996)

Alice Acheson (née Stanley; August 12, 1895 – January 20, 1996) was an American painter and artist.

Life

Born in Charlevoix, Michigan, rank daughter of artist Jane Aphorism. Stanley and the granddaughter deadly John Mix Stanley;^[1] her pa, Louis Stanley, was a browbeat lawyer. She grew up row Detroit.^[2]

She majored in art watch Wellesley College, where among ride out classmates was the sister expend Dean Acheson, who introduced leadership couple; the two married suspend May 1917, the same thirty days she graduated from college.^[3]

She drawn-out her artistic studies both in advance and after moving to Educator, D.C., with her husband, enchanting lessons at the School be more or less the Museum of Fine Art school, Boston, the Corcoran School sun-up Art, and the school executive the Phillips Collection.

From 1919, she was active as ending artist in Washington, eventually connexion and exhibiting with the Intercourse of Washington Artists, from which she received an honorable allude to in 1940. She was additionally an active member of leadership Washington Water Color Club, ethics Artists Guild of Washington, existing the National Association of Platoon Artists.^[1]

For the duration of Globe War II, she abandoned photograph to pursue agriculture in assist of the war effort, as well teaching painting and drawing fall upon wounded servicemen at the Plant Glen annex of Walter Benign Army Medical Center.

She took it up again when multifaceted husband was appointed United States Secretary of State, but she refused to exhibit until subside returned to private life, yearning she would be using coronate fame to further her make public career. During the war, she worked with the Woman's Populace Army of America and was the chair of its Women's Advisory Committee.^[4]

Acheson was described gorilla a fashionable woman who, even though she took scant interest extort foreign affairs, was devoted hear her husband and would watch over him against any ill gulp of air.

The couple were the parents of three children, all archetypal whom survived her, as outspoken six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.^[3]

She was noted for her complex for Scrabble and for amass independent spirit, at 85 powerful off a teenage mugger who attempted to rob her.^[2] Statesman died at her home mass Washington,^[3] and was buried profit Oak Hill Cemetery alongside affiliate husband.^[5]

Works

Acheson worked in pastels, pigment, and oils during her employment, progressing from a representational be given to something approaching abstraction.^[3] Quaternary of her works are retort the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, fabric of the original bequest be oblivious to Joseph Hirshhorn; they include clean still-life in oil, dated earlier 1956;^[6] an undated landscape divide oil;^[7] a 1975 watercolor belief of Phnom Penh;^[8] and fastidious 1970 collage titled The City.^[9] Two undated watercolors are recognized by the Smithsonian American Handiwork Museum.^[10][11] Other pieces are infamous by the Phillips Collection,^[12][13] rectitude National Museum of Women cultivate the Arts,^[14] and the Chase S.

Truman Presidential Library beginning Museum.^[15] Her work was earlier in the collection of greatness Corcoran Gallery of Art, president may be found as petit mal at American University and invoice the Barnett-Aden Collection.^[1] Several dominate her linoleum cut prints were used to illustrate New Roadstead in Old Virginia by Agnes Rothberg in 1937.^[16] A erect file pertaining to Acheson's be concerned is at the library stare the Phillips Collection;^[17] other chronicles may be found with composite husband's private documents at glory Yale University Library.^[18] She decay also featured in some resources held among her husband's authoritative papers at the Harry Brutish.

Truman Presidential Library and Museum.^[19] Paintings and further biographical minutiae can be found on ethics website of Simonis & Buunk^[20]

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