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Alice Kent Stoddard (1883–1976) was an American painter of portraits, landscapes, and seascapes. Many of her works, particularly portraits, are in public collections, including
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's portrait collection,
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, and other museums. She lived and painted on Monhegan Island in Maine, an enclave of artists. During World War II, she worked as a
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and drafted designs for airplanes. She married late in life to Joseph Pearson, who had been a friend and taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.


Personal life

Alice Kent Stoddard was born in
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in 1883. Her first cousin was artist
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. She rented and then bought her cousin's house known as Rockwell Kent Cottage and Studio in
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. She was good friends with fellow artist Joseph Thurman Pearson Jr., who taught at the
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. Pearson's wife, Emily, died in 1947, and Stoddard married him in 1948. They lived at "Pearson's Corner," along the
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, in
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. Pearson died in 1951.


Education

Stoddard studied at the
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, after which she studied under
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,
Thomas Anshutz Thomas Pollock Anshutz (October 5, 1851 – June 16, 1912) was an American painter and teacher. Known for his portraiture and genre scenes, Anshutz was a co-founder of The Darby School. One of Thomas Eakins's most prominent students, he succeede ...
and
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at the
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(PAFA). She won the Cresson Traveling Scholarship from PAFA.


Career

In 1911 and 1913, she was awarded the
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from the
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for ''Paper Dolls''. She was a member of
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. In 1938, she became an associate of the
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. Stoddard painted portraits of Philadelphia socialites, often including pets in the paintings. She painted her mother and sister in ''Mother and Virginia in Sitting Room'' about 1934. Woodmere Art Museum states, "Here she masterfully conveys the intimacy of family life... Virginia pauses while knitting, seemingly lost in thought. Across the room, Stoddard's mother focuses on a game of solitaire. The large, rectangular space between the two women emphasizes the psychological distance between them in their respective moments of quiet contemplation. Stoddard visited and lived in Monhegan, Maine, and integrated the people and scenery in her paintings." She painted Manville Davis, a fisherman in ''Mending the Nets'' and a portrait of artist Andrew Winter. The area became an enclave for artists, some of the other artists who painted and visited there were
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, the Wyeth family ( N. C.,
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, and
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), and
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. During
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she worked as a mechanical draftsperson for airplane design for
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and as a
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. Her work was exhibited at
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, where she also volunteered her time. Stoddard painted a mural in one of the courtrooms of the
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in Philadelphia. The mural featured a couple planting a tree and a family scene, within a construction area. It was one of 37 murals made in the building to depict the societal usefulness of the jurisprudence system. She won a "Small Oils Painting" medal at a
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.


Collections

* Alderney Library,
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** ''Beatrice Fox Griffith of Haverford, West Pennsylvania'', 1949 *
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** ''Fisherman's Little Sister'', 1915 * Ewell Sale Stewart Library, Academy of National Sciences, Philadelphia ** ''Charles M. B. Cadwalader'' *
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, Rockland, Maine ** ''Artist Sketching'', 1953 ** '' Portrait of Andrew Winter'', 1953 * Franklin Institute Of Science, Philadelphia ** ''
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'' * The Monhegan Museum ** ''Mending Nets'' ** ''
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Harbor Looking Toward Manana,'' 1910 ** ''Portrait of Gerald Stanley,'' 1913 *
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** ''Self-Portrait'', ** ''Clarence Clark Zantzinger'', *
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, Portland ** ''Uncle John Stoughton'' *
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** ''Polly (Mrs. H. Lea Hudson)'' ** ''Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones'', before 1911 * Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery, Pennsylvania ** ''Leila'' * Union League of Philadelphia ** ''Melville Griffith Baker (1875-1930)'', *
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** ''Francis Bernard Bracken (1869-1937)'', ** ''Eldridge L. Eliason'' ** ''Emma Barton Gates'' ** ''
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'', 1958 ** ''John Claxton Gittings'' ** ''Samuel Frederick Houston'' ** '' Edwin R. Keedy'' ** ''
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'' (1870-) ** ''Clarence Ewing McClung'' (1870-1946) ** ''William L. Mclean'', ** ''
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'' ** ''
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'', 1966 ** ''Charles Root Turner'', 1939 *
Woodmere Art Museum Woodmere Art Museum, located in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has a collection of paintings, prints, sculpture and photographs focusing on artists from the Delaware Valley and includes works by Thomas Pollock Anshutz, ...
, Philadelphia ** ''Boy with Hawk'' ** ''David Gates with Dog'' ** ''Mary Stuard Townsend Mason'' ** ''Master Pomeroy'', ** ''The Puppies' Angel'' ** ''Red-Headed Girl with a Doll'' ** ''James A. Waller'', 1931 *
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, Massachusetts ** ''Harriet Walton Dunbar'', 1912


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Stoddard, Alice Kent 1883 births 1976 deaths 19th-century American painters 20th-century American painters Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alumni Painters from Connecticut People from Watertown, Connecticut 20th-century American women painters 19th-century American women painters Philadelphia School of Design for Women alumni