Elizabeth O'Neill Verner SIGNED Springtime In Charleston South Carolina Framed

Elizabeth O'Neill Verner (December 21, 1883 – April 17, 1979 " Springtime In Charleston South Carolina " Lithograph Art Print. Verner was an artist, author, lecturer, and preservationist who was one of the leaders of the Charleston Renaissance. She has been called "the best-known woman artist of South Carolina of the twentieth century." She was a founding member of the Charleston Etchers Club and helped to found the Southern States Art League. She was commissioned by Williamsburg Historic District, Harvard Medical School, the United States Military Academy, Princeton University, and the University of South Carolina. Verner made etchings, drypoints, drawings, and (after 1934) pastels of Charleston, favoring buildings, street scenes, and landscapes. She became a portraitist known for representing African-Americans, especially the city's flower vendors. She worked occasionally as a book illustrator, illustrating DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy. Stylistically, her paintings are realism with impressionist overtones, while her etchings and drawings are crisply detailed studies. Verners work is held by the Harvard Art Museums, the Delaware Art Museum, the Charleston Museum, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and others. The South Carolina Arts Commission awards the Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Governor’s Awards for the Arts in her honor.