AW095: Sophronia Louise (Nona) White American Post Impressionist Oil on Canvas Painting "Where Ships Go Out To Sea"

Comments on This Painting: Sophronia Louise (Nona) White American Post Impressionist Oil on Canvas - "Where Ships Go Out To Sea". Presented in Original gilt wood frame.

Dimensions: Sight: 19" x 24"; Frame: 24 1/2" x 30 1/2"

Comments on This Artist:  Nona L White (American Born 1859 in Morris, Illinois - Died 1937 in Los Angeles, California). Nona studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. In the late 19th Century she resided in  Peoria, Illinois.  She and hers sister Emily White were active members of the Peoria Art League in the 1890s, and Nona served as the League's first Secretary. She studied at the League meeting room with Frank Peyraud and Hardesty Maratta, and was especially admired for her watercolor landscape paintings, three which hang at the Peoria Women's Club. Nona and Emily shared a studio on North Jefferson and Hamilton Boulevard, and gave lessons in oil and watercolor painting and china decoration. In 1907, the sisters moved to Los Angeles California.