Cora Smalley Brooks (c.1885-1930)
This work and two others by Cora Brooks,
will be available at Griffin's Gallery's Grand Opening on August 4, 2006.
Oil on Canvas, 28" by 30". In the original Yates Frame.
Cora Brooks, one of the founding member of the Philadelphia Ten, was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Her father Edward F. Brooks was the Gerneral Superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad. In 1902 her family moved to Lansdowne, PA. She atteded the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. She was known to have traveled to Morocco, Spain, Portugal and Italy. She died suddenly of pneumonia on March 26, 1930.
Subject matter: She specialized in flower still lives, but also was known paint landscapes, and do an occasional portrait.
Studied: She studied with Henry B. Snell and Elliott Daingerfield. Also with Snell in the summers in Gloucester, MA and Ravello, Italy, and Daingerfield in Blowing Rock, NC.
Prizes: Plastic Club (1920); National Association of Women Artists (or sometimes called the National Academy of Women Painters and Scuptors) (1922)
Exhibited: Exhibited at the place she was a member of, but also she had a solo exhibition at the Art Club of Washington, D.C. (1929).
Member: National Arts Club; National Association of Women Artists; Plastic Club; Art Alliance of Philadelphia; American Federation of Arts; Director of the Delaware County Art Association at the time of her death.
Other: She shared a studio / apartment with Lucile Howard, Eleanor Abrams, and Constance Cochrane in Philadelphia at 524 Walnut St. In January of 1931 the Philadelphia 10 held a memorial exhibition at the Plastic Club where it is said that an amazing 64 out of 88 paintings sold.
If you have any works by Cora Brooks please contact
Rachel McKay at info@griffinsgallery.com