Alice Righter Edmiston

The Platte River At Ashland by Alice Righter Edmiston, Oil on canvas.

A monoprint, Summer Bouquet by Alice Righter Edmiston.

Provincetown Church, by Alice Righter Edmiston, was exhibited in 2001 in the Great Plain's Art Collection.

Pencil Drawing, Dramatic Teacher by Alice Righter Edmiston

Still life of a vase of flowers by Alice Righter Edmiston.

Alice Righter Edmiston (1974-1962) was an American regionalist painter and printmaker who taught at universities and contributed to various art organizations in Lincoln, Nebraska and one in New York City. In Early Nebraska Women Artists she is described as an impressionist-influenced artist following modernist trends.

Her work is owned by the Vanderpoel Collection in Chicago, Lincoln Public Libraries, Museum of Nebraska Art, and the Sheldon Museum of Art. In 1902 her work was exhibited in the first show that the Haydon Art Club, now the Sheldon Museum of Art, and Nebraska Art Association showed local artists. In 1898, one of her pastels was shown at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition, Portrait of a Lady.

She has been honored at the Nebraska Art Association anniversary celebrations in 1938 and 1963. In 1957 a Omaha World-Herald article about her life was headlined, "A lively Artist at age 82."

January 2018 an exhibition titled "Early Nebraska Women Artists" displayed Edmiston's art at the Peru State Art Gallery as a project of the Museum of Nebraska Art with support from a grant from the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.

Biography

Alice Laura Righter, A. R. Edmiston, A. L. Edmiston, born in Monroe, Wisconsin in 1874, and died in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1962 at the age of 89. Now buried in the Wyuka Cemetery in Lincoln.

She moved with her family to Lincoln when she was four years old where she attended the University of Nebraska. She was a student of Sarah W. Moore's one year after the department had been established in Lincoln. She then continue her studies at the Art Institute of Chicago. After a year in Chicago, she moved to New York City and enrolled at the Art Students League. She went to Paris with one of her instructors, Frank Vincent DuMond for a summer and stayed another nine months living in the Latin Quarter. She also traveled to the East Coast, Arizona, and New Mexico.

She married Arthur Edmiston, an insurance man, in Lincoln, and had three kids.

Career

In 1893 she taught at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln and was head of the department, Cora Parker's assistant. In 1894 she taught at the Southwest Virginia Institute in Bristol, Virginia. In 1896 she taught at the Galloway College in Searcy, Arkansas.

She experimented in oil painting, watercolor, gouache, egg tempura, block prints, lithographs, and monotypes. Her work was exhibited in the first show that the Haydon Art Club and Nebraska Art Association showed local artists in 1902. In 1898 one of her pastels was shown at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition, Portrait of a Lady. In 1923 she won $100 prize for her work in the Society of Fine Arts Exhibition in Omaha, Nebraska. In 1927 the Great Plains Art Collection in Lincoln featured a painting titled "Provincetown Church." In 1934 she was included in the Joslyn Art Museum's Five States exhibit and again in 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940, and 1941. In 1941 she was given a solo show at the Joslyn Art museum that focused on her monotypes.

She was one of the first members of the Nebraska Art Association before it merged with the Haydon Art Club, and was the president of the Lincoln Artists Guild in 1920