Born in Soerabaija, Java, Miss Patterson worked during her lifetime as a painter, printmaker, illustrator, and art teacher in Boston and Wellesley, MA. She studied art formally at the Pratt Institute, NY under Arthur Dow and with Herman Dudley Murphy and Charles Herbert Woodbury in Boston.
Background | 1909 | Assistant director of drawing for Boston public schools and later appointed director | 1910 | Traveled to Spain | 1912 | Studied with Claudio Castelucho in Italy, and later with him in Paris Also studied with Augalada |
1913 | Studied wood-block printing with Ethel Mars in Paris and was given her first one-person exhibition arranged by Miss Mars, at Galerie Levesque | 1920 | Appointed head of the art department in Wellesley, MA | 1920s | Served as secretary of The Group art society | 1940s | Continued teaching and painting at her studio in Horn's Hill, on Monhegan Island, ME | 1950 | Miss Patterson died in Boston on February 17 |
Exhibitions | 1910 | Copley Gallery, Boston MA | 1913 | Solo exhibit at Gallery Levesque, Paris | 1915 | Panama-Pacific Expo, San Francisco CA | 1917 | Vose Galleries, Boston MA | 1919 | Doll and Richards, Boston MA | 1921 | Goodspeed's Bookshop, Boston MA | 1926 | Guild Boston Artists | 1939 | Philadelphia Watercolor Club | 1988-1990 | Medal James R. Bakker, Boston MA Retrospective Exhibition Prints exhibit at Berlin Photographic Co., New York NY Brown Roberston Gallery, New York NY |
1986 | Provincetown Printmakers Steven Thomas, VT First cataloqued retrospective of prints |