Esther Williams
American, 1907-1967
Washington Square
Oil on canvas
23 ¼ by 36 in, w/ frame 31 ¾ by 44 ⅝ in
Signed lower left
Esther exhibited at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School; in Paris and Philip Hale. She was a member of the Rock Port Art Association, Copley Society and The New York Women Art Club. She exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1892; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 1893, 1898; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Annual, 1901, 1927-52; Boston Art Club 1894-95, 1897 and at the National Academy of Design 1895; Corcoran Galleries biennals, 1930-45; Whitney Museum of American Art, 1933, 1936, 1938, 1940-44; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1933, 1940, 1942; Art Institute of Chicago, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1940-43, 1945; Worchester Museum of Art, 1935-36, 1938, 1945; Carnegie Institute, 1936, 1939-40, 1943-46; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1938, 1940, 1942, 1944, 1946; Golden Gate Exposition, 1939; World Fair New York 1939; Cincinnati Art Museum, 1940-41; Toledo Museum of Art, 1940-45, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1942; National Institute of Art, 1944.
Museums: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum of Fine Arts, Worchester Museum of Art, Addison Gallery of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art.