A sculptor as well as painter and printmaker Elizabeth Norton was born in Chicago, IL on Dec. 16,1887. Norton studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Academy of Design in New York, the Art Students League under DuMond, and at the Chase School. After her first visit to California in 1915 to attend the Pan Pacific International Exposition, she returned in 1919 and settled in Palo Alto where she lived until her death on Aug. 7, 1985. A prolific and versatile artist, her oeuvre includes bronze portrait busts and animals as well as lithographs, etchings, watercolors, and oils.
Member: Calif. Society of Etchers; Pacific Art League of Palo Alto; AFA; SF Women Painters. Exh: Macbeth Gallery (NYC); ASL of NY; Herter Gallery (NYC), 1915 (scenes of the PPIE); Stanford Univ., 1920, 1950; Montross Gallery (NYC), 1923; Library of Congress Print Gallery, 1924; NAD, 1927, 1942; PAFA, 1929; Courvoisier Gallery (SF), 1930; Calif. Statewide (Santa Cruz), 1931; Oakland Art Gallery, 1933; GGIE, 1939; Calif. PM Society annually; Calif. Society of Etchers; CSL, 1942; Wichita AA, 1946. In: CSL; Stanford Univ. (bust of David S. Jordan); Detroit Athletic Club; All Saints Church (Palo Alto); Library of Congress; Menlo Park (CA) Library; San Mateo Co. Library (Redwood City). lnvw; AAA 1919-33; CA&A; WWAA 1936-62.
This biography is taken from the Archives of AskART.
Source: Edan Milton Hughes, Artists in California, 1786-1940.
Museums:
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Smithsonian Institute
American Museum of Natural History
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Art Institute of Chicago
Fogg Museum
