| Isabel Branson Cartwright | |
| Birth Name: | Isabel Parke Branson |
| Birth Date: | September 4, 1885[1] |
| Birth Place: | Coatesville, Pennsylvania |
| Death Place: | Carmel, California |
| Education: | Philadelphia School of Design for Women |
| Known For: | Philadelphia Ten |
| Spouse: | [2] |
| Awards: | Alumnae Award 1906 |
Isabel Parke Branson Cartwright (September 4, 1885 – June 7, 1966) was an American artist born in Coatesville, Pennsylvania.[3]
Cartwright attended the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. In 1906, she won the 'Alumnae Award', a European fellowship allowing her to go abroad for a year. This enabled her to study with Frank Brangwyn, a figure painter in London, for a year, and to travel to Holland, France, and Italy. Other teachers included Elliott Daingerfield and Henry B. Snell.[4]
In November 1910, she married John Reagan Cartwright in El Paso, Texas. They moved to Terrell, Texas until her husband's death in 1917. She went on to have one-woman art shows in San Antonio and Fort Worth, Texas.[3]
After her Texas period, Isabel Cartwright returned to Philadelphia where she joined the Philadelphia Ten.[5] [6] Considered one of the mainstays of the group, she exhibited in all sixty-five shows that it held, over a twenty-eight year span from 1917 to 1945.[7]
Cartwright had a house in the 1940s on Monhegan Island, off the coast of Maine, where she liked to paint.[3] She exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1921-1943), and at the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.[5]
In 1953, Cartwright moved to the artists' colony of Carmel, California to live with her sister Sarah Branson Cornell.[5] Cartwright died in Ross, California in 1966.[8]