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ALICE KENT STODDARD Group of 4 etchings of Monhegan Island.
Each circa 1925. One signed in ink, lower right; one signed in pencil, lower margins. Various sizes and conditions.
Born in Watertown, Connecticut, Stoddard (1883-1976) attended the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art (where she studied under William Merritt Chase). During World War I she worked as a combat artist on the European front depicting soldiers and French refugees. She is known primarily as a portraitist who depicted Philadelphia socialites, but she also painted and etched landscapes and seascapes. Many of those works depict the scenery on Monhegan Island in Maine, where she rented and eventually bought her cousin Rockwell Kent's (1882-1971, see llots 142-146) cottage and studio.
With--FREDERICK DORR STEELE. Boats off the Coast, etching. Signed and dedicated "To Alice Stoddard" in pencil, lower margin.
