Isabel Whitney new York (1878 - 1962) Moonlight Landscape oil on canvas. signed lower left. Scratch / surface abrasion lower left. Soiling. From the Archives of askArt: Muralist and painter Isabel Lydia Whitney was born in 1878 in Brooklyn, New York and traveled widely including Taos, New Mexico in the 1920s, and as a student in Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy and Russia. She also studied at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and took lessons from Arthur Dow, Hayley Lever, and Howard Pyle., Whitney was a member of the following New York City organizations: Brooklyn Watercolor Club; Brooklyn Society of Modern Art; Salons of America, National Arts Club; and Society of Independent Artists. When Isabel Whitney died in 1962, the Pen and Brush Club, in New York City, held a memorial exhibition of her watercolors and drawings. Whitney is listed in volume 28 of the American Art Annual, published in 1932 by the American Federation of Arts; Who's Who in American Art, also published by the American Federation of Arts, in 1940; and William H. Gerdts' Women Artists of America 1707-1964, published by The Newark Museum in 1965. Source: Jules and Nancy Heller, "North American Women Artists of the 20th Century" Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki Kovinick, "Women Artists of the American West" Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art" 13 1/2"H x 25 1/2"W (site), 17 3/4"H x 29 3/4"W