Olive Parker Black

Olive Parker Black is considered an American landscape painter. She was born in Cambridge, Mass. in 1868 and died in 1949. Her first formal art education was as a student of Hugh Bolton Jones and William Merritt Chase at the National Academy and at the Art students League. Black also studied with E. Blashfield and was considered one of Chase's foremost students. Olive became well known for painting landscapes of the Eastern United States from Maryland to West Virginia and North to the Berkshire Mountains of Western Mass. Her landscapes reflect the dominant influence found in the romantic but pure Hudson River School combined with the looseness of impressionism. The work shows the characteristics of the Barbizon School which she absorbed through the teaching and art of Hugh Bolton Jones. Black painted American landscapes in a manner emphasizing the effects of the seasonal light and time of the day on her rural subjects.

Exhibited:
National Academy 1897 / 1898
Society of American Artist
Boston Art Club
Art Club of Philadelphia
Carnegie Institute

Member:
Women Artist in America
Copley Society
National Academy of Design

Listed:
Who's Who in American Art
E. Benezi
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters

Biography courtesy of Roughton Galleries, www.antiquesandfineart.com/roughton