Elizabeth E. Case (1858 - 1951)

Still Life with Black-Eyed Susans (Untitled), c. 1920s, watercolor on paper, signed lower left, 20 x 14 inches (sheet), 19 x 12 1/2 inches (image), presented in its original frame with a new mat

$950

Elizabeth E. Case was a New York painter, illustrator, designer and art instructor. She graduated from the Cooper Union in 1891 after three years of study and initially worked as an art instructor at the Baptist Female College in High Point, North Carolina. She also studied at the Art Students League and with Alden Weir, Willard Metcalf, and William Merritt Chase. Case exhibited at the Society of Independent Artists and was the President of New York's Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, where she also exhibited, and the art section of the Woman's Press Club. In addition to her studio practice, she taught art in the New York Public Schools. She also taught costume design and illustration late in life and was a frequent lecturer on art. She is listed in Who Was Who in American Art and other standard references.