ANTIQUE ARTS & CRAFTS AMERICAN FLORAL STILL LIFE by SUE MAY WESTCOTT GILL
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ANTIQUE ARTS & CRAFTS AMERICAN FLORAL STILL LIFE by SUE MAY WESTCOTT GILLDescriptionThis is an antique American floral still life by Sue May Gill. The painting is an oil on canvas and measures 18x16 inches. The frame is a signed Arts & Crafts Shop of Philadelphia frame and measures 21.75x19.75 inches. The canvas has been placed on a more contemporary wood stretcher. Sue May Westcott Gill (1887-1989) joined her sister Sarah in Philadelphia in 1919 she began her study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She took four years of painting study and returned in 1932 for a year of training in sculpture. Westcott won the prestigious Cresson Traveling Scholarship Award from the Academy in 1922 for her Indian Maiden portrait.In 1927, she and Orville Westcott divorced, and shortly thereafter, she married fellow artist Paul Gill, whom she had met in 1920 when they were both students at the Academy. From 1928 until 1982, Sue May Gill resided in English Village, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, in an English Tudor home that contained studios for both her and her husband.Gill's first major one-person exhibition was held in 1930 at the Art Club of Philadelphia where her exhibition of sixty paintings -- portraits, floral still-lives and small street scenes from North Africa - won unanimous critical acclaim.In 1931 Sue May Westcott joined, the Philadelphia
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