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Anna Gertrude Masters

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Anna Gertrude Masters

Birth
Pennsylvania, USA
Death
18 Oct 1956 (aged 80)
Burial
Upper Darby, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
Plot
C161
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Anna Gertrude Masters
Education: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Art Teacher: The Haverford School, Haverford, PA
Professional Oil Painting Artist: http://www.askart.com/askart/artist.aspx?artist=10035920

Gertrude Masters was an accomplished painter and a beloved art teacher of thirty-five years at the Haverford School, a Quaker school in Haverford, Pennsylvania, where she was the only woman teaching in the upper classes. She was trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and exhibited in 1925 at the Society of Independent Artists in New York City.

Like many artists of her time, Masters painted during the summers on Nantucket. She exhibited in group shows at the Easy Street Gallery from 1928 to 1931, with many prominent artists such as Anne Congdon, Hayley Lever, Volney Richardson, Elizabeth Saltonstall and Edgar Jenney.

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Anna Gertrude Masters
Education: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Art Teacher: The Haverford School, Haverford, PA
Professional Oil Painting Artist: http://www.askart.com/askart/artist.aspx?artist=10035920

Gertrude Masters was an accomplished painter and a beloved art teacher of thirty-five years at the Haverford School, a Quaker school in Haverford, Pennsylvania, where she was the only woman teaching in the upper classes. She was trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and exhibited in 1925 at the Society of Independent Artists in New York City.

Like many artists of her time, Masters painted during the summers on Nantucket. She exhibited in group shows at the Easy Street Gallery from 1928 to 1931, with many prominent artists such as Anne Congdon, Hayley Lever, Volney Richardson, Elizabeth Saltonstall and Edgar Jenney.

Sources:
Vose Galleries
Information provided by Cynthia Beech Lawrence, Wiederseim Associates


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  • Added: Feb 17, 2011
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65759534/anna_gertrude-masters: accessed ), memorial page for Anna Gertrude Masters (16 Oct 1876–18 Oct 1956), Find a Grave Memorial ID 65759534, citing Friends Southwestern Burial Ground, Upper Darby, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by Shiva (contributor 47163650).