[Birch Trees by Frances Oliver]

"Birch Trees near Water" by Frances Oliver. Pastel, ca. 8.5 x 10 in.

Frances Oliver

(1904-1946)

Philadelphia Artist
and Musician

[Frances: close-up]


 

Close-up of Frances wearing the pearls given by her father.

Portrait

Pastel, before 1937, by Ellis A. Oliver, her father, sometime student at Drexel Institute of Technology of William H. Pyle, premier American illustrator.

[Frances at Sea]

Frances at sea.

[Family photo]


Frances, at far right beside Kathryn Mahr Oliver, her mother. Her brother, Herb (far left); his wife, Ann; and their first child, John H., are also pictured on the garden bench (3311 Walnut St., Phila., 1938).

 

Read about Ellis Augustus Oliver (1872-1937), her devoted father, portrait-painter, and frequent photographer. A brief Web article surveys his career as a commercial artist in Philadelphia with notes about his family, friends, and contemporaries. E. A. Oliver was a member of "The Scumblers," a group of Philadelphia artists who spent summers at the dawn of the 20th century at Edison, Bucks County, PA, near Neshaminy Creek.

 

 

Rev. 2021.xi.16 / © 1998-2021 by Richard Oliver OSB / www.richoliver.us/eao/frances.html