Alice Kent Stoddard
| Alice Kent Stoddard | |
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| Born | 1883 Watertown, Connecticut |
| Died | 1976 (aged 92–93) |
| Nationality | American |
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 Beatrice Fox Griffith of Haverford, West Pennsylvania, 1949, Alderney Library, Channel Islands |
Alice Kent Stoddard (1883–1976) was an American painter of portraits, landscapes, and seascapes. Many of her works, particularly portraits, are in public collections, including University of Pennsylvania's portrait collection, Woodmere Art Museum, and other museums. She lived and painted on Monhegan Island in Maine, an enclave of artists. During World War II, she worked as a combat artist and drafted designs for airplanes. She married late in life to Joseph Pearson, who had been a friend and taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Alice Kent Stoddard was born in Watertown, Connecticut in 1883. Her first cousin was artist Rockwell Kent. She rented and then bought her cousin's house known as Rockwell Kent Cottage and Studio in Monhegan, Maine.
She was good friends with fellow artist Joseph Pearson, who taught at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His wife, Emily, died in 1947 and Stoddard married Pearson in 1948. They lived at "Pearson's Corner". Joseph Pearson died in 1951.
Stoddard studied at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, after which she studied under William Merritt Chase, Thomas Eakins, Thomas Anshutz and Cecilia Beaux at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA). She won the Cresson Traveling Scholarship from PAFA.
In 1911 and 1913, she was awarded the Mary Smith Prize from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for Paper Dolls.
She was a member of The Plastic Club. In 1938, she became an associate of the National Academy of Design.
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