Daisy Erb, Palm Beach. Gouache, 20 by 24 inches.
Daisy Erb came to Palm Beach about the same time Ben Austrian arrived at the Royal Poinciana Hotel in 1910. She purchased the Enoch Root estate on Root Trail and made it home to a small group of artists. In 1918 as chairman of the Palm Beach Women’s Club’s art committee, Erb helped organize a sketch club of women who would go out regularly on sketching and painting trips. At the end of the season a first exhibit of their work was held at the Palm Beach Women’s Club. Men were not eligible for membership so in 1919 the sketch club was renamed the Palm Beach County Art Club, now open to both sexes. Daisy Erb’s enthusiasm and effort were instrumental in the clubs formation, the publication of its first catalog in 1922, and the name change in 1927 to the Palm Beach Art League. Erb was the League’s founding president.
Born: Canton, Ohio.
Education: Maryland College; Corcoran School of Art ; in Paris.
Membership: Palm Beach County Art Club, 1919 ,founder, later the Palm Beach Art League; Society of The Four Arts; Black Mountain Art Association; League of American Pen Women; Florida Federation of Art, (1928-1931, recording secretary).
Exhibits: Florida Federation of Art, Annual Circuit, 1929, Blue Ridge Country, Flower Stand; Florida Federation of Art, 1931, Blue Ridge Country; Asheville Art Guild, 1935, prize; National Convention, League of American Pen Women, 1935, prize; Palm Beach Art League, 1937, prize; Florida Federation of Art, 10th Annual Exhibit, 1936; Florida Federation of Art, 11th Annual Exhibition, St. Augustine, December 2-5, 1937, oil, In The Blue Ridge, watercolor, Overlooking Blue Ridge; Florida Federation of Art Annual, Society of The Four Arts, Palm Beach, December 1938, 2nd honorable mention, An Old Home; Florida Federation of Art, Circuit Show, 1938; Palm Beach Art League, March 1939, 2nd prize, best landscape or marine, November; Society of The Four Arts, 5th Annual Members Exhibition, January 1943, Old House in Black Mountain, Flower Study; Society of The Four Arts, 6th Annual Members Exhibition, Palm Beach, January 1944, October; Palm Beach Art League, Norton Gallery, March 1944; Society of The Four Arts, 9th Annual Members Exhibit, December 1946-January 1947, gouache, Home in the Mountain.
Directory: Listed in the West Palm Beach City Directory, 1938, 1939 as an aritst with a studio at 415 East Lakewood Road, West Palm Beach.
