Alice Schille

Alice Schille (1869-1955) [pronounced SHILL-ay] was a renowned and pioneering watercolor and oil painter known for her Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings depicting women, children, and landscapes. She began painting at a young age and developed an array of styles though her travels to South America, Europe, and Africa. She furthered her studies at the Columbus Art School and later the Art Students League of New York. There, she studied under noted artists William Merritt Chase and Kenyon Cox. In 1902, Schille moved to Paris to study at the Académie Colarossi. For years following, she painted as she traveled around the globe.

Schille received numerous awards and accolades, and exhibited in shows at distinguished institutions such as the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the New Mexico Museum of Art. Her work was accepted in the Society Nationale des Beaux-Arts exhibition in 1904 and was regularly included in exhibitions at the Corcoran Gallery, American Watercolor Society, and the Philadelphia Water Color Club. In 1987, she was included in the inaugural exhibition of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.