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Title: Country Landscape Medium: Oil on board Style: Impressionist Size: 16" x 20" Frame Size: 20" x 24" Age: 1950s Condition: Good, no damage seen good condition for its age. Artist: Nellie Augusta Knopf (1875 - 1962) Nellie Augusta Knopf was active/lived in Illinois, California. Nellie Knopf is known for landscape and still life painting. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Nellie Knopf became a painter of mountain, pueblos, seascapes, and other outdoor scenes that brought her international recognition. She graduated with honors from the Art Institute of Chicago, a student of John Vanderpoel and Frederick Freer. For 43 years she taught and was Director of Art at Illinois Woman's College, later MacMurray College, in Jacksonville, Illinois. She managed to combine effective teaching with a successful painting career of her own. She sketched every summer from 1910 to 1917 with Charles Woodbury in Ogunguit, Maine, and beginning 1923, she traveled widely in the West during summers and sabbaticals, to paint the landscapes and pueblos of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, California, etc. She was deaf but overcame that handicap to do what was described as "miles of paintings". The following information, courtesy Sidney Hamper, is abstracted from a letter from Nellie A. Knopf, dated Nov. 9, 1915 to the John H. Vanderpoel Art Association. "...I was born in Chicago-my parents themselves being early Chicagoans. I graduated from the Chicago Art Institute in 1900-with honors. Taught one year in it's Saturday classes. Since 1900 I have been director of the School of Fine Arts of the Illinois Woman's College at Jacksonville, Illinois. Have studied one summer with Chas, Francis Browne and six summers in the school of Chas H. Woodbury in Ogunquit, Maine. Have exhibited the last six or seven years with Chicago artists - also with the Eastern Society of Artists-and with the large All American Contemporary Artists exhibition of oil painting in Chicago (1914). Have also had an exhibition of pictures with American Water Color Society-Chicago and elsewhere..." Provenance: Collection from estate in New Jersey