Grace Woodbridge Geer Explained

Grace Woodbridge Geer
Birth Place:	Boston, Massachusetts
Death Place:	Boston, Massachusetts
Nationality:	American
Education:	Massachusetts Normal Art School, Lowell Institute
Field:	Painting

Grace Woodbridge Geer (1854-1938) was an American painter.^[1]

Biography

Geer was born in 1854 in Boston, Massachusetts.^[2] She studied at the Massachusetts Normal Art School and the Lowell Institute She also received instruction from Edmund C. Tarbell, Frank Hector Tompkins, Samuel Triscott, and Robert Vonnoh.^[3]

She was a member of the Copley Society of Art, the American Society of Miniature Painters,^[3] the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, and the Professional Women's Club of Boston. Her miniatures were exhibited at the Copley Society, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Academy of Design, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Geer died on June 27, 1938, in Boston.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Geer, Grace Woodbridge, 1854-1938, painter . SIRIS - Smithsonian Institution Research Information System . 18 July 2020.
2. Web site: Geer, Grace Woodbridge . Benezit Dictionary of Artists . 2011 . 10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00071911 . 18 July 2020 . en.
3. Web site: Grace Geer . AskArt . 18 July 2020.
4. Web site: Miss Grace W. Geer, Boston Artist, 83; Portrait and Landscape Painter Was Mayflower Descendant . The New York Times . 18 July 2020 . 28 June 1938.