Louise Pershing (May 24, 1904 – October 14, 1986) was an American painter, sculptor, and designer.
She was a founder of the
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.
Pershing lived in the
Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh, and spent her summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
She also went by the names Louise Pershing Murdoch,
and Louise Pershing Berlin.
Career
Louise Pershing was born on May 24, 1904, in
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. It is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania#Municipalities, second-most populous city in Pennsylvania (after Philadelphia) and the List of Un ...
, Pennsylvania.
She graduated from the Knox School for Girls in
Cooperstown, New York.
She continued her studies at the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts;
followed by the
Carnegie Institute of Technology (now
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The institution was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools. In 1912, it became the Carnegie Institu ...
),
and the
University of Pittsburgh
The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The university is composed of seventeen undergraduate and graduate schools and colle ...
. She worked under
Hans Hofman,
and while at the Carnegie Institute she worked under
Giovanni Romagnoli and
Alexander Kostellow.
Exhibitions
Pershing exhibited extensively, beginning in 1927 with the
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. One of her paintings, "Seedlings," was included in the 1937
Carnegie International, and her work was also part of the 1949 and 1950 Internationals.
She also had several solo exhibitions. ''Exhibition of Paintings by Louise Pershing'' appeared at the
Carnegie Institute between March 19-April 26, 1942.
Awards
Pershing's painting, ''Coal Tipple'' earned the Margaret Cooper Prize at the 45th Annual Exhibition of the
National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors in 1936.
References
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1904 births
1986 deaths
20th-century American women artists
American painters
American sculptors
American women painters
American women sculptors
Artists from Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
University of Pittsburgh alumni