Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Figures on a Sofa
watercolor
4.5 x 6.5 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Landscape in Red, Yellow and Purple
watercolor
3.75 x 5.75 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Arab Girl, 1911
oil on paper
14 x 10.5 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
A Street in Tunis, 1911
oil on canvas
18 x 15 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Tunis, 1911
oil on board
15 x 18 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Indian Woman, 1911
oil on canvas
26 x 20 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Portrait of an Indian Girl, 1911
oil on board
10 x 7 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Taos Figure, 1911
oil on board
10 x 7 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Portrait of an Officer, 1911
oil on canvas
24 x 20 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
untitled, circa 1911
28.125 x 23 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Figures in an Archway, circa 1912
oil on canvas
30 x 20 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Southwestern Still Life, 1918
oil on paper
15 x 10 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Two Women in an Interior, 1918
oil on canvas
20 x 28 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
A Pueblo, Taos, 1919
oil on canvas
30 x 25 inches
Collection of Denver Art Museum
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Indian Brave, 1919
oil on canvas
18 x 12 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Indian Ceremony Taos
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Arab Market, 1920
oil on canvas
18 x 14 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Bather, 1920
oil on canvas
28 x 38 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Two Women in an Interior, 1920
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Olympia, 1920
oil on canvas
30 x 36 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Passage in Tunis, 1920
oil on board
18 x 16 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Portrait of a Woman, 1920
oil on canvas
30 x 23 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
The Arizona Desert, 1920
oil on canvas
20 x 25 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
The Waiting Attendants, 1920
oil on canvas
36 x 30 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Un Marabout Tunis, circa 1920
oil on board
15 x 18 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Portrait of a Woman Reading a Newspaper, 1923
oil on canvas
36 x 28 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Men Carrying Peppers in Front of Mosque, Tunis, 1924
oil on board
18 x 14.5 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Arab Bathers, Tunis, circa 1925
oil on canvas
36 x 30 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Bath House, Tunis, circa 1925
oil on canvas
28 x 38 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Street in Tunis, circa 1925
oil on canvas
15 x 18 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Desert in May, circa 1920
oil on canvas
18 x 15 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
The Bath, 1920
oil on canvas
28 x 38 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Desert Oasis, circa 1925
oil on panel
15 x 18 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Gangrene
oil on canvas
26 x 30.5 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Paradise Valley Near Phoenix, 1925
oil on board
24 x 9 inches (2 panels)
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
GIrl of the Oasis, 1928
oil on canvas
18 x 14 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Tunis, 1933
18.125 x 14.875 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Indian Portrait, 1946
mixed media
17.25 x 15.25 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Stoney Indian, 1947
mixed media
13.5 x 10.5 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Totem, 1947
mixed media on paper
13.75 x 10.75 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Arab Man
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Arab Market
oil on canvas
14 x 18 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Evening Tunis
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Portrait of a Young Arab Man
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Interior of a Tunisian Mosque with Congregants
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Souk de Étoffes Tunis
oil on canvas
18.1 x 15 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
The Tower, Tunis
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Views of Tunis - Caravan Outside a Walled City
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
untitled
oil on panel
14 x 17 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Indian Ceremony, Taos
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Indian Dancers and Villagers, Corn Dance in the Pueblo
oil on board
14.5 x 14.375 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
pencil on paper
12 x 9 inches
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Portrait of a Woman
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Portrait of an Indian Woman
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Portrait
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Reclining Woman
Eda Sterchi (1885-1969)
Decorative Head of Young Buffalo
Artist Details
Eda
Elizabeth
Sterchi
Sterchi
Eugene Cole Wharf (1880-circa 1956) of Olney, married 1902 at her parent’s house in Olney, an 8 pm wedding; for honeymoon, took B&O train to St. Louis, then Leeline Steamer to Memphis and other points south; divorced about 1908, definitely by 1910
at age 55, district agent for a life insurance company
received a Selective Service Medal certificate from President Harry Truman for his service is administering the Selective Service System
second wife was Elizabeth J. Seed (Bridgeport, Illinois November 28, 1875-July 28, 1946 Knox County, Illinois); they married March 20, 1912 and had one son, Eugene C. Wharf
n/a
n/a
May 24, 1885
Olney, Illinois
October 10, 1969
Paradise Valley, Arizona
Swiss
1910-1914: Paris, France
12 years, divided her time between Tunisia and Chicago
1930s: wintered at her one-room cabin residence on 160 acres in Phoneix, Arizona
1941, built an adobe home on her Arizona homestead where she spent the remainder of her life
1908: enrolled in School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; student of Lorado Taft; focused on figure composition, watercolor, illustration, portraiture, and printmaking
1910-1914: Paris, France; student of Lucien Simon; student of Rene Menard Prinet and Deballiere
Institute de Carthage, Carthage, Tunisia
1910: fist trip to Taos, New Mexico
1920s: Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia
Array
1913+: American Artists Club, Paris, France
1913+: International Artists Union, Paris, France
November 16, 1915-January 2, 1916: American Oil Paintings and Sculpture, Twenty-Eighth Annual Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Portrait: E.S.; In Bou Sada
February 8-March 5, 1916: Twentieth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Dance of the Ouled Nayls
November 2-December 7, 1916: Twenty-Ninth Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Portrait: Mrs. J. S. Nicholson
1916-17: Chicago Society of Artists,
February 1-March 4, 1917: Twenty-First Annual Exhibition of Artists of Chicago and Vicinity; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Sketch: Self-Portrait; The Kouba Bou Sada; Sketch: Michigan Avenue, Twilight; In Bou Sada; Portrait: Anne Sterchi Shultz; Portrait: Paul Schoenfeld
February 14-March 17, 1918: Twenty-Second Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; A Summer Sketch; A Portrait
February 13-March 30, 1919: Twenty-Third Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Michigan Avenue; South Michigan Avenue; Mrs. Constantine Harcoff; Rainy Day; Still LIfe
January 29-March 3, 1920: Twenty-Fourth Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Portrait of Dr. F.T. Fahlen; Taos Indian; Corn Dance; A Pueblo
July 18-October 11, 1929: Paintings by Eda Sterchi, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
March 20-October 9, 2016: Eda Sterchi: Embodying the New Woman, Evergreen Museum & Library, Baltimore, Maryland
November 15, 2019 – January 11, 2020: Village Life: Art, Culture and Community in New Mexico, The Owings Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico : Indian Dance with Villagers, Corn Dance in the Pueblo, oil on board; 17 3/4 x 14 1/2 inches
Tunisian Government awarded the title of Officer in the Order of Nichan Iktikhar, the Tunisian equivalent to the French Legion, which was rarely granted to women
the violet ribbon of the Palmes Academiques from the French Ministry of Public Instruction and Fine Arts
1909: assistant teacher in the Saturday Sketch Class, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
taught at the Academie de la Grand Chaumiere, Paris, France
guide to artists in the territory in and around Tunis
Public Works of Art Project (PWAP)
YouTube from 2020 exhibition at Evansville Museum, Evansville, Indiana