Susette Schultz Keast

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Susette Schultz Keast
BornSusette Inloes Schultz
(1892-08-06)August 6, 1892
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died September 5, 1932(1932-09-05) (aged 40)
West Chester, Pennsylvania
Nationality American
Education Philadelphia School of Design, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Known for Painting
Movement Pennsylvania Impressionists
Spouse(s)W. R. Morton Keast(m. 1919)

Susette Inloes Schultz Keast (August 6, 1892 – September 5, 1932) was an American painter. She was a member of the Philadelphia Ten. [1]

Philadelphia Ten organization

The Philadelphia Ten, also known as The Ten, was a group of female artists from the United States who exhibited together from 1917 to 1945. The group exhibited annually in Philadelphia and later had traveling exhibitions at museums throughout the East Coast and the Midwest.

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Biography

Keast was born in 1892 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [2]

She attended the Philadelphia School of Design, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her instructors included Henry B. Snell, Elliott Daingerfield, Hugh H. Breckenridge, Thomas Pollock Anshutz and William Merritt Chase. [3] In 1911 she received a Cresson European Scholarship from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts which allowed her summer travel to Europe. [2]

Philadelphia School of Design for Women

Philadelphia School of Design for Women (1848–1932) was an art school for women in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Under the directorship of Emily Sartain (1886–1920), it became the largest art school for women in the United States, and its faculty included Robert Henri, Samuel Murray and Daniel Garber. In 1932, it merged into what is now the Moore College of Art and Design.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts museum and art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is a museum and art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1805 and is the first and oldest art museum and art school in the United States. The academy's museum is internationally known for its collections of 19th- and 20th-century American paintings, sculptures, and works on paper. Its archives house important materials for the study of American art history, museums, and art training.

Henry B. Snell American painter

Henry Bayley Snell (1858–1943) was an American Impressionist painter and educator. Snell's paintings are in museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, and the Pennsylvania Academy in Philadelphia.

Keast married the architect W. R. Morton Keast in 1919. They subsequently travel to China and Japan. [4]

William Richard "W. R." Morton Keast was an American architect from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the chief designer of famed architect John T. Windrim. Keast began construction of the Philadelphia Family Court Building in 1938.

In 1922 the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts purchased her painting Inner Harbor. [5]

In 1930 Keast replaced Cora S. Brooks as a member of the Philadelphia Ten. [4] Keast was also a member of The Plastic Club and the North Shore Art Association. [6]

Cora Smalley Brooks, was an American painter. She was an original member of the Philadelphia Ten.

The Plastic Club art organization located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Plastic Club is an arts organization located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1897, the Plastic Club is one of the oldest art clubs in the United States. It is located on the 200 block of Camac Street, the "Little Street of Clubs" that was a cultural destination in the early 1900s. Since 1991, the club's membership also includes men.

North Shore Art Association

The North Shore Art Association of East Gloucester, Massachusetts is one of the oldest art associations in the United States. Founded in 1922, it was the gathering place of some of the great American artists of the 20th century.

She died suddenly in 1932 in West Chester, Pennsylvania. [4] [6]

Inner Harbor by Susette Schultz Keast, 1922 Inner Harbor by Susette Schultz Keast, 1922, PAFA.jpg
Inner Harbor by Susette Schultz Keast, 1922

Legacy

Keast's work was included in the 1998 retrospective, "The Philadelphia Ten" at the Moore College of Art & Design. [6]

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