Eleanor Abrams
American painter
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Eleanor Abrams (1885 - 1967) was an American painter. She was an original member of the Philadelphia Ten.[1]
Biography
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]