Alice Scbille provides a full-scale critical biography and retrospective showing of the artist's work in the context of selected works by her contemporaries. It further documents her life and career with an illustrated Chronology; lists of Selected Exhibitions, Permanent Collections, Prizes and Awards. and Memberships;Bibliography and Index.

Alice Schille (1869-1955) was one of the finest watercolor artists of her time and among the foremost woman watercolorists ever produced in America; Born in Columbus, Ohio, she studied art in New York and Paris and was influenced by progressive art movements.Remarkably for a woman m that era, she was a world traveler, painting throughout the U.S. (including the Southwest), Europe, North Africa, and Latin America.One of Schille's greatest achievements is her communication of the fascination she herself derived from these travels.

Alice Scbille, a beautiful and revelatory volume, brings together the artist's finest paintings still lifes, landscapes and gardens, mothers and children, market and harbor scenes. She captured the naturalness of childhood in an extremely appealing way, producing a series of warm, affecting images, managing a rare balance of realism and sentiment. Her paintings of the workingclass Jewish and Italian neighborhoods on the Lower East Side are, in the words of author William H. Gerdts,"some of the most exciting watercolors ever rendered of urban life in New York."

Schille's work evolved from Tonalist naturalism, through Impressionism and Post-Impressionism (including works made up of the colorful dots and dashes characteristic of Pointillism), to include the influence of Fauvism as well as an exploration of the faceting of Cubist methodology. Her later work also reveals the influence of Rivera and the Mexican muralists.

One of Schille's most remarkable achievements is a watercolor Water Lilies whose brilliant effects Gerdts considers "equivalent to Monet's achievement in his mammoth oils."

Alice Scbille provides a full-scale critical biography and retrospective showing of the artist's work in the context of selected works by her contemporaries. It further documents her life and career with an illustrated Chronology; lists of Selected Exhibitions, Permanent Collections, Prizes and Awards. and Memberships;Bibliography and Index.

Foreword by James M. Keny

Alice Schille by William H. Gerdts

Notes

Chronology

Selected Exhibitions

Permanent Collections

Prizes and Awards

Memberships

Bibliography

Index