biography of Alice Stanley ACHESON (1895-1996)

Birth place: Charlevoix, MI

Addresses: Washington, DC, from 1919; Chatham, MA, 1994

Profession: Painter, illustrator

Studied: Wellesley Col.; BMFA Sch.; Corcoran School of Art; Phillips Gallery school; with Howard Smith, Richard Meryman.

Exhibited: solo: Wash., D.C., 1924, 1930, 1936, 1939, 1944, 1947, 1954, 1957; Soc. Wash. Artists, 1940 (hon. men.); New York, 1939, 1942, 1947, 1956; NGA, 1944; CGA, 1954 (solo); Manatee County A. Center, Bradenton, Fla., 1956; Franz Bader Gallery.

Member: NAWA; Soc. Wash. A.; A. Gld. Wash.; Wash. WCC; NYSWA.

Work: in Washington, DC: PMG; CGA, the Hirshhorn Collection, Watkins Gallery of Amer. Univ., Barnett-Aden Collection.

Comments: Daughter and granddaughter, respectively, of artists Jane Stanley and John Mix Stanley. Married Dean G. Acheson, later Secretary of State, in 1917. Illus., New Roads in Old Virginia."

Sources: WW59; WW47; McMahan, Artists of Washington, D.C.