biography of Elizabeth R. PIERCE (XX)

Birth place: Brooklyn, NY

Addresses: Bayside, NY; Yarmouth, NS

Profession: Painter

Studied: ASL, with John Groth, John Stewart Curry & Ame Goldthwaite; Art League Long Island, New York, with Edgar A. Whitney; Columbia Univ. Exten.; Hunter Col.

Exhibited: Douglaston A. Lg., 1946 (prize), 1950 (prize); BM, 1942; Studio Gal., 1945, 1946; Graitt Studios, NY, 1937; ASL, 1989; Jersey City Mus.; A. Lg. Long Island, 1946 (prize); Nat. Assn. Women Artists Ann., NAD Galleries; Argent Gal.; Hudson Valley AA; NAC; Nova Scotia Soc. Artists, Halifax; Nat. Mus., Wash., DC; Crowell's Downeaster Gal., Yarmouth, NS; Women's Int. Exp., 1947.

Member: NAWA; life mem. ASL; Douglaston A. Lg.; Nat. Lg. Am. Pen Women; A. Lg. Long Island; AAPL; New Jersey Soc. P. & S.

Work: Children's room, Jamaica Pub. Libr., NY

Comments: Preferred media: oils. Teaching: instr. adult educ. oil painting, Nova Scotia Dept. Educ., Yarmouth, 1959-67.

Sources: WW73; WW47