Elizabeth Patton, Hollywood, Miami, Largo. Watercolor, 11 by 15 inches, sight. From the collection of Philip Wenthe.
A licensed pilot and a WASP trainee during World War II, Elizabeth Patton was art supervisor for Pleasantville, New Jersey public schools from 1942 to 1949 and head of the art department at Dwight Morrow (Englewood, New Jersey) High School, before moving to Hollywood, Florida in 1951. Patton eventually moved to Miami and in 1973 to Largo, Florida.
In 1969 Patton was a regular exhibitor at the Tanya Brook’s Gallery, Palm Beach, Gallery 3, Miami, the Emerald Gallery at the Diplomat Hotel on Hallandale Beach and the Cardvelle on Galt Ocean Mile in Fort Lauderdale.
Elizabeth Patton, watercolor, 11 by 15 inches, signed lower right. From the collection of Stella and Rodney Rouse, Silver Springs, Maryland.
An award-winning Florida artist, Elizabeth Patton’s works hang in the Denver Museum of Art and the Ford Collection of American Art. The Crane Family Foundation donated a series of her paintings depicting life among the Seminole Indians to the Southeastern Museum of the North American Indian on the campus of the University of North Carolina, Pembroke campus. Patton’s paintings, including Palm Harvest and Okeechobee Country were featured in the Miami Herald’s Fun in Florida section.
Born: 1914, Philadelphia. Died: March 15, 2001, Largo, Florida. Education: University of Pennsylvania, art education; Carnegie Institute of Technology; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Philadelphia College of Arts. Membership: Florida Federation of Art; American Artists Professional League; Broward Art Guild; Hollywood Arts and Crafts Guild; Art Guild of Boca Raton; Florida Watercolor Society; South Jersey Art League; New Jersey Education Association; Clearwater Branch of American Association of University Women. Exhibits: Hollywood Arts and Crafts Guild, 1st Annual, February 1952, at Hollywood Recreation building, top floor gallery, Old Tucson; Hollywood Arts and Crafts, exhibit in local stores, November 1952, Hales Department Store; Hollywood Arts and Crafts Guild at Black Forrest Theater Restaurant, Hallandale, January 1953, watercolors, Downtown, Okeechobee Ranch and Okeechobee Ghosts; Miami Women’s Club, Artists and Writers Breakfast, February 1953, watercolor, Okeechobee Ghosts; 4th Annual Exhibit, Art Guild of Boca Raton, March 1953; Artists of Greater Miami Show, Miami Beach Art Center, November 1953, Florida Fantasy; Hollywood Arts and Crafts Guild, Hollywood Beach Hotel, February 1954, The Red Barn; American Artists Professional League, Clothesline art show at Sunrise Shopping Center, March 1954; First Annual Beaux Arts Ball, Jolly Roger Hotel, Thanksgiving 1954, second prize, Shipwreck; Miami Woman’s Club, 27th Annual Artists and Writers Breakfast, February 1955, Antiques; American Artists Professional League, Miami Chapter at Washington Art Gallery, November 1955, Cabbage Packing; Miami Boat Show, Dinner Key Auditorium, February 1956, best seascape, Hurricane; American Artists Professional League at Washington Art Galleries, November 1956, Florida Antiques (Pictured Miami Daily News November 4, 1956;) Miami Boat Show, Dinner Key auditorium, February 1957, honorable mention for dock scene in oil, Gray Day; American Artists Professional League at Washington Art Galleries, Miami Beach, November 1957, The Midway and blue ribbon, Beach Picnic; Miami Woman’s Club Artists and Writers Breakfast, February 20, 1958; American Artists Professional League, Miami Chapter, Washington Art Gallery, Miami Beach, November 1958; 1st Annual Broward Art Guild members exhibit, at Schramm Galleries, December 1958; Hollywood Arts and Crafts Guild, at Hollywood Federal Savings and Loan, March 1959, first prize, Gray Day; Florida Federation of Art 33rd Annual Exhibit, Tampa, November 1959, an oil, Gray Day; Royal Poinciana Art Exhibit at Burdine’s Auditorium, June 1960, honorable mention; Miami Beach Art Center, January 1961, one man exhibit of 30 paintings including Palm Harvest and Okeechobee Country; American Artists Professional League, Coconut Grove Playhouse Gallery, February 1961; Florida State Fair, Tampa, exhibited between, 1956-1962; Mirell Gallery, Coconut Grove, June 1963, New Orleans Street Scene, Chartres Street and Back Stairs; Frank Smik Gallery, Miami, November 1968, West Dixie Highway, On the Beach, (Pictured Miami Daily News, November 13, 1968); Blue Dome exhibit, Mirell Gallery, April 1969; Clearwater First Federal Savings and Loan, May 1979, one man exhibit of watercolors. Directory: Listed in the Miami City Directory in 1960 as an artist with a studio at 349 Georgia.
