biography of Béatrice Sturtevant GARDNER (1893-1990)

Birth place: Westtown, NY

Addresses: Woodstock, NY

Profession: Painter, teacher, lecturer, writer

Studied: Columbia Univ., B.S., M.A.; …cole des Beaux-Arts, Paris; A. Dow; C. Martin; E. Renard; ASL

Exhibited: Salons of Am., 1926; S. Indp. A., 1926; Argent Gal, 1937 (solo); Morton Gal.; Am. Artists Week, Balboa (C.Z.), 1941-55 (prizes); Florida Int. Exhib., 1952 (prize); Honolulu Library, 1957; Woodstock AA; Univ. Panama; Newport AA; elsewhere, in Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, Canal Zone, Peru

Member: Woodstock AA; AAUW; Canal Zone Art Lg. (founder; pres.)

Work: mural, St. Luke's Cathedral, CZ; wall dec., Hôtel Bout de L'Óle, Canada.

Comments: She arranged exhibs. for JWB Gal., Balboa, CZ; directed Annual Community Art Exh., CZ. Contributor of art reviews and articles for newspapers and magazines of Panama. Position: teacher, Canal Zone Jr. College, Balboa; instructor, adult educ., Onteora Central School; pres., Woodstock Gld. of Craftsmen Shop, 1958.

Sources: WW59; WW47; Woodstock AA