Antique WPA American Scene Oil Painting Pennsylvania Priscilla Longshore Garrett, SLR, O/C, titled "Adams Street", Adams Street is a location in Scranton, Pennsylvania, 34 x 30", 42 x 38" framed
The Everhart Museum in Scranton Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania included the artist in an exhibition last year along with Hope Horn, Violet Oakley, Margaret Oettinger, Edith Reynolds, and Elizabeth W. Taylor.
Born in 1907 in Chatham, New Jersey, Priscilla Garrett and her family relocated to her father’s family farm in Southeastern Pennsylvania shortly after her birth. When she was age seven, Prisicilla’s parents died from typhoid, and she and her sister were separated, with Priscilla being adopted by her father’s cousin in West Chester, Pennsylvania.Garrett studied art at Drexel Institute for two years, and then went to the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (now Moore College of Art) where she studied illustration. She completed her art studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in 1932.Garrett’s worked in the style of American Realism, in which everyday life was depicted and often featured people working in their communities. Garrett’s first solo exhibition was held at the Everhart Museum in 1940, and featured paintings on the industrial landscape of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Garrett left Pennsylvania in the 1950s and settled in the American Southwest, where she remained until her death.Priscilla Longshore Garrett Paintings are also on permanent display at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts Museum and the Amon Carter Museum of Natural History, Science & Art.

42 x 38 x 3 in

10 lb