Artists

Gertrude Fiske

American, 1879-1961

Fiske (1879-1961) was a Boston School Painter, a student and colleague of American Impressionists Edmund C. Tarbell, Frank Benson, Philip Hale, and Charles Woodbury. Her paintings were composed with an eye to the selective, expressive visual organization of the whole, i. e. the impression of the whole other than its parts. As with other American Impressionists, she has a refined sense of lost and found edges, capturing a sense of depth and mystique. Gertrude was known for her strong depictions of women in traditional scenes, such as women in interiors, with power, instead of gentility and fragility.