biography of Bertha Corson Day BATES (1875-1968)

Birth place: Phila., PA

Death place: Centerville, DE

Addresses: Greenville, DE

Profession: Drawing specialist, illustrator, landscape painter

Studied: With Howard Pyle; Drexel Inst., Phila.

Exhibited: PAFA, 1895, 1900, 1903; Colgate & Co. (prize); Phila. Export Expo. (prize); Delarware AM, 1978 (posthumous exhib.)

Member: Plastic Club; Phila. Print Club; Phila. Artists All.

Comments: (Bertha C. Day) After her marriage in 1902, she gave up commerical illustration to design bookplates, posters and covers for cultural groups in Delaware. Illus., Harper Bros.; Little Brown and Co.; R.H. Russell; other publishers.

Sources: WW33; Petteys, Dictionary of Women Artists.