Alice Ruggles Sohier (1880–1969) was an American artist, known for paintings of figures, portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. She was an active artist between 1900 until around c.1959.

Life

Alice Ruggles was born in 1880. The daughter of Frederick Huntington and Ruth Alice Swan, raised in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston. She graduated high school in 1899. From 1900 until 1902, Sohier attended Art Students League of Buffalo, studying under Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock. In 1904, she studied at the

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(Museum School),with Edmund C. Tarbell and

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. In 1907, she was awarded the Paige Traveling Scholarship, allowing her two years to travel throughout Europe. In 1913, she married engineer, Louis Amory Sohier of

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. The couple moved first to

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then later to Concord, Massachusetts. She taught art classes at

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. She was an early member of

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. She died in May 1969 in Concord, Massachusetts. Her work is included in many public museum collections, including

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, Zanesville Museum of Art,

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, among others

References

{{Authority control 1880 births 1969 deaths Art Students' League of Buffalo alumni School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts alumni People from Concord, Massachusetts Painters from Boston People from Dorchester, Boston