Alice Archer Sewall James (1870-1955)
- Alice Archer Sewall James (1870-1955)
- Evening in the Marshes
- Oil on board
- 5 1/4 x 9 inches
- Signed lower right
Alice began her artistic training at the age of sixteen at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland.[1] Upon her return to the U.S., Alice further studied in Washington D.C. under American artist Howard Helmick (1845-1907).[2] In 1893, Alice exhibited a number of designs at the Ninth Annual Exhibition of the Architectural League of New York that received favorable attention. Her works included a panel from a design for an altar-piece, a colored plaster panel, and sketches for three lunettes on rough plaster in the house of a gentleman in New York City.[3] In 1895, Louis Comfort Tiffany commissioned a series of Alice’s decorative panels. The panels which depicted cupid-like figures with musical instruments were placed in the choir screen of a church being erected in New York City.[4]
