Alice Schille

Sensitive American impressionist, major watercolorist, fauvist, dynamic landscape artist, acute and compassionate portrait painter: Alice Schille (1869-1955) held all those distinctions in her long career, adding to her various styles an impressive sense of speed, pale shades and bright curves. With 185 color and 34 b&w images, Alice Schille companion for an exhibit at the Canton (Ohio) Museum of Art provides an opportunity to view the Schille oeuvre in all its significant phases: fans of Mary Cassatt or of Walter Sickert will never be the same. William H. Gerdts, professor emeritus of art history at the City University of New York, covers both the life and the paintings in cogent, informed prose. (Sept.)