Alice Schille was an America

United States

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n watercolorist and painter.

Schille was born in Columbus, Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city...

 and attended the Columbus Art School beginning in 1891, and studied at the Art Students League of New York

Art Students League of New York

The Art Students League of New York is an art school located on West 57th Street in New York City. The League has historically been known for its broad appeal to both amateurs and professional artists, and has maintained for over 130 years a tradition of offering reasonably priced classes on a...

 on a scholarship under William Merritt Chase

William Merritt Chase

William Merritt Chase was an American painter known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later would become Parsons The New School for Design.- Early life and training :He was born in Williamsburg , Indiana, to the family...

. There she studied figure drawing with Kenyon Cox. In 1894 she went to Europe and remained there until 1900, in 1903 studying at the Académie Colarossi

Académie Colarossi

The Académie Colarossi is an art school founded by the Italian sculptor Filippo Colarossi. First located on the Île de la Cité, it moved in the 1870s to 10 rue de la Grande-Chaumière in the VIe arrondissement of Paris, France....

 in Paris, later traveling extensively in the United States, Morocco, Egypt and abroad. For years she taught at the Columbus Art School, retiring in 1948.

Alice Schille's father was Peter Schille and her mother was Sophia Green.She also Lost her father when she was only 17.Her mother lived to the age of 101 years old.

Alice Schille won the gold medal at the 1915 annual watercolor exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine arts along with many other honors throughout her lifetime. Scholar James Keny notes in his excerpt on Schille in the Encyclopedia of the Midwest that in 1909 " Schille exhibited some of the first examples of Pointillism by an American artists at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts".

Schille is buried in Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio. Asked how to say her name, she told The Literary Digest

Literary Digest

The Literary Digest was an influential general interest weekly magazine published by Funk & Wagnalls. Founded by Isaac Kaufmann Funk in 1890, it eventually merged with two similar weekly magazines, Public Opinion and Current Opinion.-History:...

it was SHILL-ay. (Charles Earle Funk, What's the Name, Please?, Funk & Wagnalls, 1936.)

External links

• Online biography
• American Orientalists, by Gerald M. Ackerman
• http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/5aa/5aa327.htm
• http://www.askart.com/askart/artist.aspx?artist=25270
• http://www.amazon.com/Alice-Schille-William-H-Gerdts/dp/1555951813