Eleanor Abrams

Abrams was born in 1885 in Butler County, Pennsylvania. She worked as an occupational therapist, known as Reconstruction Aides,^[2] during WWI.^[1]

Abrams moved to Philadelphia at the age of twenty where she shared a studio with Edith Lucile Howard and Cora S. Brooks. She spent time in New York where she shared a studio with Mary Elizabeth Price.^[3]

She attended the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, studying under Henry B. Snell and Elliott Daingerfield.^[3] She graduated in 1908.^[1]

From a wealthy family, she was able to spend the winter months in Bermuda and draw inspiration from the gardens there.^[3] Abrams specialized in painting flowers, exhibiting at The Plastic Club,^[3] the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh,^[3] and the Philadelphia Ten^[4]

Abrams died in 1967.^[1]