Nellie Augusta Knopf
(1875 – 1962)
Nellie Knopf was born in Chicago in 1875. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with Freer and Vanderpoel. Despite the handicap of being deaf, she was a teacher of art and for many years department head at the Illinois Woman’s College, now MacMurray College, for 43 years starting in 1900. During the summers 1910 to 1917 she studied in Maine with Charles Woodbury. Beginning in 1921 her summers and holidays were spent on painting trips to the West, including Wyoming, Arizona, Montana, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, and California. Knopf was 80 years old when she announced that she had done "miles of paintings, some of them very good." She died in 1962 in Lansing, MI.
Land & Sea, Maine
20 x 24 inches
Oil on canvas
Signed & dated lower right
SOLD