Elizabeth Charleston was born in
San Francisco,
California, in 1910, shortly after the devastating
San Francisco earthquake of 1906. She attended the
Katherine Delmar Burke School and lived the life of a wealthy San Franciscan of the time. During her youth, she lived in France, and those memories later were reflected in her works. At the age of 50, Charleston was in an automobile accident which limited her activities and mobility. She began painting for the first time while recovering. including Hammer Galleries in NY (at least four one-woman exhibitions at
Armand Hammer's famed galleries), Frank H. Boos Gallery in Bloomfield MI, Conacher Galleries in San Francisco, Salon des Femmes Peintres in Paris in 1974, the Salon exhibition at
Société des Artistes Français in 1973. Charleston is popular with San Francisco Bay Area collectors, including Laura King Pfaff (chairman of
Bonhams & Butterfields, the world's third largest auction house). Charleston died on April 8, 1997, in
San Rafael, California, near San Francisco. ==Gallery==