Biography

1936
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Education

1959
BFA with Honors, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

1958
Certificate, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2007
Figurative 60’s, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2006
Works on Paper, J. Cacciola Galleries, New York

2005
Recent Prints, The Print Center, Philadelphia

2004
Locks Gallery, Philadelphia

2002
Elizabeth Osborne: 30 Years, Works on Paper, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2000
Vantage, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1998
Old Main Art Museum, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ

1997
Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1994
Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, DC

1993-94
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND

1992
Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1991
Watercolors, Arronson Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1990
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1988
Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1987
Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY

1984
Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY

1982
Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY

1980
Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY

1978
Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1977
Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, Ltd., New York, NY

1976
Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1974
Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, Ltd. New York, NY

1972
Landscapes, Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1970
Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1969
American Consulate, Sao Paulo, Brazil

1967
Peale Galleries, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Perakis Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1963
Perakis Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2006
Group Exhibition, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, DC

2005
In Full View: American Painting From 1720 to 2005, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Academy at Penn, Kroiz Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

2004
Light, Line and Color, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2003
Variable Geographies, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
University of Pennsylvania Alumni Exhibition, Kroiz Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2002
Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, AZ

2000
American Watercolors at the Pennsylvania Academy, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1998
Contemporary Colors: Works on Paper, The Monmouth Museum, Monmouth, NJ
Flowers in Mind, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1997
The Unbroken Line, Museum of American Art, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1996
Floral Fantasy, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
Twentieth Century Still Life, Museum of American Art, Philadelphia, PA

1995
American Watercolors and Drawings, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington,
DC
Department of Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Group Exhibition, William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, TX

1994
Quartet: Four Pennsylvania Artists, Lebanon Valley College, Pennsylvania

1992
Modern Still Life: Drawings, Watercolors and Collage from the Permanent Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

1991
Drawings Today, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1990
Directions: Paintings, Sculpture and Prints, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Works on Paper, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, DC

1989
Looking Back: The Seventies at Marian Locks, Marian Locks Gallery,
Philadelphia, PA
Group Exhibition, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY
Art of the State: Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania State Museum,
Harrisburg, PA
Ninety-Second Annual Juried Exhibition, American College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, PA

1988
Consonance, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, DC
The Luther Brady Collection, Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University,
Hamilton, NY
The Janss Collection, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID

1987
Mainstream America: Collection of Phillip Desind, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Group Exhibition, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY
The Flower in Twentieth-Century American Art, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA

1986
American Graphic Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Celebrating Philadelphia, Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1985-87
American Realism: Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolors, organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, traveled to: DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, MA; Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; Art Museum, Akron, OH; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI

1985-86
City Views, Panoramas to Particulars: Works from the CIGNA Collection, CIGNA Headquarters, Philadelphia, PA

1985
American Realism, William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1983
Tulip Time, Impressions Gallery, Boston, MA
American Works on Paper (1883-1983), Keny and Johnson Gallery,
Columbus, OH
Realist Watercolors, Florida International University, Tamiami, FL

1982
Collector's Art Gallery XVI, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San
Antonio, TX

1981
A Feast for the Eyes; Contemporary Representations of Food, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
Still Life and Beyond, Silvermine Guild Galleries, New Canaan, CT
Contemporary American Realism Since 1960, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; traveled to Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA and Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

1980-81
Still Life Today, Goddard-Riverside Community Center, New York, NY

1980
Selections from the Fischbach Gallery, State University of New York,
Cortland, NY
Waterworks, University of North Dakota Galleries, Grand Forks, ND
In Celebration of Prints, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

1979
Still Life Prints, Graphics I and II, Boston, MA
Contemporary Drawings: Philadelphia II, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Women Artists in America, Allport Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The New American Still Life, Westmoreland County Museum, Greensburg, PA
Twenty-Five Pennsylvania Women Artists, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
Artist and Teacher, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1978
Painting and Sculpture Today 1978, Indianapolis Museum of Art,
Indianapolis, IN

1977
Group Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Group Exhibition, Squibb Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey, NJ
Contemporary Issues: Works on Paper by Women, Los Angeles, CA

1976
Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia in Washington, Pyramid Gallery, Washington, DC
In this Academy, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1975
Landscape, Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ
Watercolor, U.S.A., Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
Five Pennsylvania Artists, Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, PA
PMA at MCA, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
The Year of the Woman, Bronx Museum of Arts, Bronx, NY

1974
Women's Work, American Art, Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center, Philadelphia, PA

1972
The Topography of Nature, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

1969
Group Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters,
New York, NY

1968
Group Exhibition, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, DC

1961-68
Annual, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Selected Awards and Fellowships

1989
Percy M. Owens Memorial Award for a Distinguished Pennsylvania Artist, 92nd Annual Juried Exhibition, American College, Bryn Mawr, PA

1983
MacDowell Colony Grant

1971
Harrison S. Morris Prize, Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

1968
Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters

1964
Ford Foundation Purchase Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

1963
Fulbright Scholarship, Paris

1958
Scheidt Traveling Fellowship, Cresson Traveling Fellowship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

1955
Catherwood Traveling Fellowship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Selected Public and Private collections

American Re-Insurance, New York, NY
American Telephone and Telegraph, New York, NY
Brown, Wood, Ivey, Mitchell, and Petty, New York, NY
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Chemical Bank, New York, NY
CIGNA, Philadelphia, PA
Commerce Bancshares, Inc., Kansas City, MO
Dechert, Price and Rhoads, Philadelphia, PA
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Duane, Morris, and Heckscher, Philadelphia, PA
First Pennsylvania Bank, Philadelphia, PA
Lehman Brothers, New York, NY
Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Pittsburgh Plate Glass, Pittsburgh, PA
The Print Club of Philadelphia, PA
Provident National Bank, Philadelphia, PA
Rahr-West Museum, Manitowoc, WI
Shaw, Pittman, Potts, and Trowbridge, New York, NY
Simpson Thacher, Bartlett, New York, NY
The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
UniDynamics Corporation, Stamford, Connecticut
Westinghouse Corporation, New York, New York
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania