Pell, Ella Ferris, 1846-1922
Person
Biography
Oil and watercolor painter, illustrator and sculptor born in 1846 in St. Louis, Missouri. Subjects included portraits, figures and landscapes. Studied at Cooper Union in New York City with William Rimmer and in Paris with Jean Paul Laurens, Ferdinand Humbert, and Gastonne St. Pierre at the Academy des Beaux-Arts des Champs Elysees. Known for her sculpture Andromeda. See Chris Petteys, Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 (Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1985), 554.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Pell, Ella Ferris
File — Box SC125 Box 14: Series 2 [Barcode: U185012644797], Folder: 17
Identifier: Sub-series 1.1
Subseries Scope and Content
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The Artists Files subseries contains information related to the artist and their works includes photographs, programs, articles and correspondence used in research for specific artists within the collection.
Dates:
1777 - 2009