Isabel Branson Cartwright

Isabel Parke Branson Cartwright (September 4, 1885 – June 7, 1966) was an American artist born in Coatesville, Pennsylvania.[3]

Isabel Branson Cartwright
Born
Isabel Parke Branson

September 4, 1885[1]
Coatesville, Pennsylvania
DiedJune 7, 1966(1966-06-07) (aged 80)
Carmel, California
EducationPhiladelphia School of Design for Women
Known forPhiladelphia Ten
Spouse(s)
John Reagan Cartwright
(
m. 1910)
[2]
AwardsAlumnae Award 1906

Cartwright attended the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. In 1906, she won the 'Alumnae Award', a European fellowship allowing her to go abroad for a year.[4] This enabled her to study with Frank Brangwyn, a figure painter in London, for a year, and to travel to Holland, France, and Italy. Other teachers included Elliott Daingerfield and Henry B. Snell.[5]

In November 1910, she married John Reagan Cartwright in El Paso, Texas. They moved to Terrell, Texas until her husband's death in 1917. She went on to have one-woman art shows in San Antonio and Fort Worth, Texas.[3]

After her Texas period, Isabel Cartwright returned to Philadelphia where she joined the Philadelphia Ten.[4][6] Considered one of the mainstays of the group, she exhibited in all sixty-five shows that it held, over a twenty-eight year span from 1917 to 1945.[7]

Cartwright had a house in the 1940s on Monhegan Island, off the coast of Maine, where she liked to paint.[3] She exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1921-1943), and at the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.[4]

In 1953, Cartwright moved to the artists' colony of Carmel, California to live with her sister Sarah Branson Cornell.[4] Cartwright died in Ross, California in 1966.[8]

References
  1. Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1669-1999
  2. Texas, Select County Marriage Index, 1837-1965
  3. Powers, John E.; Powers, Deborah Daniels (2000). Texas painters, sculptors & graphic artists : a biographical dictionary of artists in Texas before 1942. Austin, Tex.: Woodmont Books. p. 84. ISBN 978-0966962208.
  4. Talbott, Page; Sydney, Patricia Tanis (1998). The Philadelphia ten:a women's artist group, 1917-1945. Kansas CIty, MO.: American Art Review Press.
  5. Official Catalogue 16th Annual Loan Collection. State Fair of Texas and Mexican National Exhibition. 1921. pp. 8–9. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
  6. Bradley, Lauren. "The Philadelphia Ten". Moore College of Art & Design. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
  7. "The Philadelphia Ten: A Women's Artist Group 1917-1945". Westmoreland Museum of American Art. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  8. Worley, Michael Preston. "Isabel Parke Branson Cartwright". HL Chalfant. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
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