Emily nichols hatch biography

Birth place: Newport, RI

Death place: Tarrytown, NY

Addresses: NYC/Tarrytown, NY

Profession: Painter, stump printer, lecturer, teacher, writer, portrait cougar

Studied: Artists & Artisans Unfair. with Walter Shirlaw, J.W. Stimson, William Chase, Charles Hawthorne, George Wharton Gents Ward Stimson; Shinnecock Summer School model Art with W.M. Chase; Charles Hawthorne; Eugene Paul Ullman in Paris.

Exhibited: Montclair Art Club, 1911, 1912; MacDowell Club, 1910-17; AIC, 1915; River Valley AA, 1941-52, 1941 (prize), 1946 (prize for prints); NY Women's Course Club, 1912 (prize); Carnegie Inst., 1913, 1914; NAD, 1913, 1915, 1916-32; Mohn Art Gal., 1915; NAWA, annually (1935, prize); BM; CAM; All. Artists Am., 1935, 1936; NY Soc. Painters; AWCS; Corcoran Gal., 1914; Union Lg. Baton, 1915; St. Louis AM, 1915, 1917-18, 1921; Montclair Art Mus., 1924; BMA, 1925; Pen & Brush Club, 1931(prize), 1934 (prize), 1960 (memorial exhib.); Silverware Gal., NYC, 1936; Westchester Gld. Artists, 1948-52; Westchester Arts & Crafts Gld., 1948-52 (prize, 1950); Detroit Inst. Art; AIC; Hackley Sch., Tarrytown, NY, 1949 (retrospective); Catherine L. Wolfe Art Cudgel, 1954; Univ. Virginia, 1974 (retrospective); Auslew Gallery, Norfolk, VA (retrospective).

Member: MacD. Club (chmn., painting committee, 5 years); SPNY; Hudson Valley AA (pres., 3 years); Westchester Gld. Art; NAWA (pres., 1921-25); PBC (dir., 3 years); NY Soc. Painters; Yonkers AA; NAWA (pres., 1921-25); NYSP, Westchester Arts & Crafts Guild; Pen & Brush Club; Hudson Valley AA (pres. and dir.)

Work: Richmond (IN) Art Mus.; NMAA.; Heckscher Mus., Huntington, NY

Comments: Prolific portrait and landscape maestro. She made trips to Europe not quite every summer; shared a studio con Paris with Eliz. C. Stanton slip in 1926; kept a studio in Auteuil, Paris, in 1927. When in NYC, her studio was at 62 President Square. Around 1952, she moved pan a studio in Tarrytown, NY, which she called The Barn." Positions: dir./founder, Tarrytown Art Center, 1940.

Sources: WW47; WW59; exh. cat., Auslew Gal., Norfolk, VA, n.d.; Pisano, One Digit Nat. Assoc. Women Artists, 58; Pisano, The Students of William M. Chase, 17."