biography of Alice Kent STODDARD (1885/93-1976)

Birth place: Watertown, CT

Death place: Newtown, PA

Addresses: Phila., PA

Profession: Portrait painter

Studied: Phila. School Des. for Women; PAFA with Thomas Eakins, Anschutz, Wm. Merritt Chase

Exhibited: PAFA Ann., 1908-48 (as Stoddard), 1952-53 (as Pearson), 1964 (as Stoddard) (prize 1911, 1913; gold medal 1926); Corcoran Gal. biennials, 1910-41 (15 times); Pan.-Pacific Expo, San Fran., 1915; Sesqui-Cent. Int. Expo, Phila., 1926; NAD, 1917 (medal), 1928 (medal); Phila. AC, 1913 (prize), 1916 (gold); CGA; Albright Art Gal.; BM; Wilmington Art Club; PM; Phila. Art All.; Woodmere Art Gal., Phila.; Newport, RI; AIC; CAFA. Awards: Cresson Scholarships, 1905, 1906, 1907; PAFA (fellowship); Monhegan (ME) Mus., 1984 (posthumous)

Member: ANA, 1938.

Work: PAFA; Delgado Mus. Art; Reading, PA; Dallas, TX; portraits, Supreme & Fed. Court Judges, PA

Comments: Birth date possibly 1885. Made battlefield paintings during WWI. Married Joseph T. Pearson in 1948. Also painted on Monhegan Island (ME).

Sources: WW59; WW47; Curtis, Curtis, and Lieberman, 50, 59, 142, 170, 186; Falk, Exh. Record Series.