Alice Standish Buell
1892 – 1964
According to information from the National Museum for Women in the Arts, Alice Standish Buell was an active printmaker from the 1920’s into the late 1950’s. Updated information provided by Deborah T. Haynes. For complete information about Alice Standish Buell see: https://www.askart.com/artist/Alice_Standish_Buell/100769/Alice_Standish_Buell.aspx
Alice Standish was born 1892 in Oak Park, Illinois and received her early art training and degree from Oberlin College. There, she met Josiah Bradley Buell who she married several years later. The couple was concerned with welfare and social work which took them to New York where Alice did casework and took social work classes at Columbia University, wrote, and advocated for national welfare laws for women and children.
When her father died , Standish Buell’s inheritance allowed her to completely devote her life to being an artist. From 1923 until 1925, she enrolled in a full course of classes at the Art Students League.
Her husband’s work made them move a number of times to locations that were inspirational to her printmaking, but Standish-Buell maintained ties with the Art Students League, printmaking friends and teachers , and rural Vermont where she had family ties. Her printmaking, especially dry point prints. brought her both commercial success and the respect of her peers. She was invited to exhibit at Chicago’s Century of Progress”, and the New York World’s Fair Exhibitions. Her achievement in etching was especially recognized by the Philadelphia Printmakers Club in 1939 and, in 1947, she won first prize for graphic art from the National Association of Women Artists.
Her etchings are in the collection of the Library of Congress, the Art Students’ League, and the National Museum for Women in the Arts.
“The LAST LOAD” pictured here, was inspired by activity on her own pasture in Vermont.
Etching, signed in the margin, SOLD
Image size 7 ½” x 10 ½”
Sheet size 10 3/8” x 14”