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Edith Mitchill Prellwitz (American, 1865–1944)
Classical Figures, n.d.

Monotype, 6 3/8 x 10 in.
Collection of The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York. Gift of
the Baker/Pisano Collection, 2001.9.196

Edith Mitchill Prellwitz studied with William Merritt Chase
at the Art Students League of New York from 1883 to 1889.
After an apprenticeship at the Tiffany Glass Company in New
York, she left for Paris to study with William-Adolphe
Bouguereau and Gustave Courtois at the Académie Julian
where she was likely introduced to monotype making. Along
with her husband Henry Prellwitz she was a member of the
Peconic Art Colony, centered on the North Fork of Long
Island, having moved there from Cornish, New Hampshire,
where they were part of the Cornish Art Colony, and friends,
most notably, with Augustus Saint Gaudens. There are only
a handful of monotypes known to have been made by
Edith Prellwitz.
NOTES:
Dearinger, Paintings and Sculpture, 451.
Pisano, Long Island Landscape Painting, 128.
Pisano and Gerdts, Painters of Peconic, 68.
For more information, see Pisano and Goley, Henry & Edith Mitchill
Prellwitz & the Peconic Art Colony.

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