Alice Schille

Alice Schille (1869–1955) was an American watercolorist and painter from Columbus, Ohio. She was Famous for her Impressionist and Post Impressionist paintings, which usually depicted scenes featuring markets, women, children, and landscapes. Her realization to take over the vibes of her subjects and landscapes often resulted in her winning the top prize in art competitions. She was after that known for her versatility in painting styles; her influences included the “Dutch Old Masters, James McNeill Whistler, the Fauves, and Mexican muralists.”

Schille was born to wealth upon August 21, 1869, to daddy Peter Schille and mom Sophia Green. She traveled to combined continents, including North and South America, Europe, and Africa, to develop her painting techniques. Her travels between fused countries encouraged her to build her perplexing and versatile art style; the amalgam of her travels reflected an "[null Strange courage and strength of will]" in her paintings.

She attended the Columbus Art School beginning in 1891, and studied at the Art Students League of New York on a scholarship below American painter William Merritt Chase. There she studied figure drawing later American player Kenyon Cox. In 1894 she went to Europe and remained there until 1900, in 1903 studying at the Académie Colarossi in Paris, later traveling extensively in the United States, Morocco, Egypt and abroad. For years she taught at the Columbus Art School, retiring in 1948.

Alice Schille won the gold medal at the 1915 annual watercolor exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, along with many extra honors throughout her lifetime. That thesame year she showed paintings in New York closely works by Helen Watson Phelps, Adelaide Deming and Emma Lampert Cooper. Scholar James Keny remarks in his excerpt on Schille in The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, that in 1909 "Schille exhibited some of the first examples of Pointillism by an American player at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts."

Schille visited Santa Fe, New Mexico for the first time in the summer of 1919, returning the similar to summer and returning another time in 1926. She continued to visit sporadically into the 1930s. In 1920 she hosted a one-woman exhibition of fifteen watercolor paintings at the New Mexico Museum of Art. Later that year, she exhibited at the thesame museum's annual Fiesta show. Today, her bill can be found in the enduring art collections of the Canton Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, El Paso Museum of Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Art Club of Philadelphia and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Schille floating her father when she was 17; her mommy lived to the age of 101 years. Schille is buried in Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio.

Asked how to say her name, she told The Literary Digest it was SHILL-ay.