Sue May Gill
Also recorded as Sue May Gailey Wescott Gill
Sue May Gill
- Born
- 1887 · Sabinal.
- Died
- 1989 · Topton.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- painting
- Education
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts · School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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Sue May Gill studied at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The field of work recorded is painting. Work by Sue May Gill is recorded in the collections of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
• Name — Sue May Gill • Born — 1887 1 12 • Birthplace — Sabinal, Texas • Died — 1989 1 14 • Place of death — Topton, Pennsylvania • Education — Chicago Art Institute, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Academie Colarossi • Field — Painting Sue May Gailey Wescott Gill was an American artist and member of the Philadelphia Ten.
Life
Sue May Gill was born on January 12, 1887, in Sabinal, Texas. The second child of Asa Jones Gailey and Sue Louise Connally, she studied at the Chicago Art Institute, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Academie Colarossi in Paris. Gill married Orville D. Wescott, a physician residing in Denver, Colorado in 1908, and had a daughter in 1915. She and Wescott divorced in 1928, and she later married Paul L. Gill, with whom she lived in Harvey Cedars, New Jersey. Gill had a one-woman show at the Art Club of Philadelphia in 1930. In 1931 she joined the Philadelphia Ten group and served as its chairman from 1934 through 1935. Gill died on January 14, 1989, in Topton, Pennsylvania.
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On origins, the institutional record states the following. Born in 1887 at Sabinal. It is also recorded that sue May Gill died in 1989 at Topton.
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- 1.The Philadelphia Ten. Moore Women Artists.
- 2.Sue May Westcott Gill. Gratz Gallery & Conservation Studio.
- 3.Sue May Gailey Wescott Gill-Artist (1887-1989), Wes Loder. Accessed April 29, 2015. "GG and Paul bought their own little cottage in Harvey Cedars just one house from the beach and from the mid-Twenties on spent much of their non-traveling time in the summers there."
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