Elizabeth Norton (artist)

Elizabeth Sawyer Norton was born December 16, 1887, in Chicago, Illinois, to lawyer James Sanger Norton (1844–1896) and Frances Julia Rumsey (1850–1933). Norton studied fine art at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1910. == Career ==

Norton had a successful career and exhibited her art in many galleries in New York City. She had an older sister named Frances Sanger Norton (married name, Brown) that had moved to Palo Alto, California because her husband Harry Brown was a professor in the Philosophy Department at Stanford University. Norton traveled to California in 1915 to attend to Panama–Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) and to visit her sister. When Norton moved to California she became interested in printmaking, prior to which she primarily worked in sculpture, pastels, and oil paint. Norton was a founding member of the Palo Alto Art Club (now the Pacific Art League) in 1921. Norton was a member of the California Society of Etchers; Palo Alto Art Club (now known as the Pacific Art League); American Federation of Arts; and San Francisco Women Painters. == Death and legacy ==

In the last 20 years of Norton's life she lived at Channing House, a retirement community in Palo Alto. the Fogg Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery, among others. The Pacific Art League of Palo Alto has dedicated a solo-exhibition gallery in her name, the "Elizabeth Norton studio" and the "Elizabeth Norton Distinguished Service Award". Her bronze bust of David Starr Jordan is on display at Hoover Institution at Stanford University. == Exhibitions ==

• 1920 – Stanford University, Stanford, California • 1939 – Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, California • 1942 – National Academy of Design, New York City, New York • 1944 – American Color Print Society, New York City, New York • 1946 – Wichita Art Association, Wichita, Kanas • 1950 – Stanford University, Stanford, California == References ==