Eleanor Abrams (1885 - 1967), was an American painter. She was an original member of the Philadelphia Ten.

Biography

Abrams was born in 1885 in Butler County, Pennsylvania. She worked as an occupational therapist, known as Reconstruction Aides, during WWI.

Eleanor Abrams

Abrams moved to Philadelphia at the age of twenty where she shared a studio with Edith Lucile Howard and Cora S. Brooks. She spent time in New York where she shared a studio with Mary Elizabeth Price.

Eleanor Abrams

She attended the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, studying under Henry B. Snell and Elliott Daingerfield. She graduated in 1908.

Eleanor Abrams

From a wealthy family, she was able to spend the winter months in Bermuda and draw inspiration from the gardens there. Abrams specialized in painting flowers, exhibiting at The Plastic Club, the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, and the Philadelphia Ten

Abrams died in 1967.

References

1885 births

1967 deaths

20th-century American women artists

Painters from Pennsylvania

Philadelphia School of Design for Women alumni

Occupational therapists