Elizabeth Norton

Artist Details

• First Name Elizabeth
• Middle Name Sawyer
• Surname Norton
• Birth Date December 16, 1887
• Birth Place Chicago, Illinois
• Death Date 1985
• Death Place Palo Alto, California
• Residence(s) 1919-1985: Palo Alto, California
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
  
  New York, New York       
  
  Palo Alto, California
• Categories Lithographer, Painter-Oil, Printmaker, Sculptor, Watercolorist
• Training Miss Ely’s boarding school, New York, New York
  1910: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  1912: National Academy of Design, New York, New York; student of James Earle Fraser
  Art Student’s League, New York, New York; student of Frank DuMond
  Chase School, New York, New York; student of William Merritt Chase
  1913: student of Mrs. Haatschek
  
• Relevant Travel 1915: California
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History 1915: Herter Gallery, New York, New York
  
  1915-1921: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1920, 1950: Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
  
  1923: Montross Gallery, New York, New York
  
  1924: Library of Congress Print Gallery, Washington, D.C.
  
  1927, 1942: National Academy of Design, New York, New York
  
  1929: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  1930: Courvoisier Gallery, San Francisco, California
  
  1931: California Statewide, Santa Cruz, California
  
  1933: Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, California
  
  1939:  Golden Gate International Exhibition
  
  1942: CSL
  
  1946: Wichita Art Association, Wichita, Kansas
  
  American Color Print Society
  
  1942: California State Library, Sacramento, California [solo]
  
  1950:  Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
  
  Art Student’s League, New York, New York
  
  California Printmakers Society
  
  Macbeth Gallery, New York, New York
  
  Palo Alto Art Club, Palo Alto, California
  
  Goodspeed Book Shop, Boston, Massachusetts
• Collections Achenbach Collection, San Francisco, California
  
  All Saints Church, Palo Alto, California
  
  American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York
  
  Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  CSL
  
  Detroit Athletic Club, Detroit, Michigan
  
  Fogg Museum,
  
  Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
  
  Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
  
  Menlo Park Library, Menlo Park, California
  
  New York Public Library, New York, New York
  
  San Mateo County Library, Redwood City, California
  
  Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
  
  Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
  
  Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
  
  Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
• Memberships California Society of Etchers
  
  Palo Alto Art Club [founded April 1921]; renamed Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, Palo Alto, California
  
  Prairie Print Makers
  
  AFA
  
  SF Women Painters
  
  Woodcut Society
• Website(s) AskArt.com website
• Biography as a child, loved spending time at the Lion House at Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago; she sketched inside the general fence; had pet alligator, chameleon, cats and dogs