EMILY NICHOLS HATCH (1871-1959)
Coastal View, 1920
Oil on panel
8 3/8 x 5 5/8 inches
Signed at lower right: Emily Nichols Hatch / 1920
Emily Nichols Hatch was born in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1871.
She studied at the Artists and Artisans Institute, and the Shinnecock Summer School of Art on Long Island with Charles Hawthorne, Walter Shirlaw and William Merritt Chase. She made several trips to Europe and had a studio in Paris. She was listed as portrait painter, wood-block printer, lecturer, teacher, and writer.
In 1912, she was the recipient of the Macmillan Portrait Prize from the Woman's Art Club of New York. She was a member of the Pen and Brush Club, and the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, where she served as President from 1921 through 1925.
In 1940, she became the Director of the Art Center in Tarrytown, New York.
Hatch died in 1959, and her papers are in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.
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