Lot 115
Alta West Salisbury (1879-1933)

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Provenance:
With the label of Westchester Arts and Crafts Guild to the stretcher verso;
Private Collection, Nova Scotia
Note:
At one time Alta West Salisbury was considered one of America's leading landscape and still life painters. Born in Darnestown, Maryland, she studied at the Corcoran School of Art under Cullen Yates and Leon Dabo in New York, and at the Fontainebleau School of Fine Art in France.
Salisbury was a founding member of the New Rochelle Art Association in 1920 and was also a noted art educator and lecturer.