Sarah Blakeslee (American, 1912-2005), House with White Capped Woman

Watercolor on paper, 1935, signed and dated at lower right, retaining gallery and collection labels to verso, presented in a gilt frame below glass.

Sight size 11 1/2 x 18 3/4 in.; Frame dimensions 23 3/8 x 30 1/2 in.

Gallery C, Raleigh, North Carolina
From the Collection of the late A. Everette James, Jr., M.D., J.D., Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Private Collection, Asheville, North Carolina


Born in Evanston, IL, Blakeslee began her art studies at the age of 13 at the Chicago Art Institute. Her family moved to Washington, D.C., where she enrolled at the Corcoran School of Art and Miss Catherine Critcher's School of Art. She took classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts during the first-half of the 1930s and was awarded the Academy's prestigious Cresson Scholarship twice. During her studies at the Academy, she met and married her instructor, painter Francis Speight.

Blakeslee's artwork has been exhibited by the Art Institute of Chicago; Corcoran Gallery; National Academy of Design; North Carolina Museum; Pennsylvania Academy; and the 1939 Worlds Fair in San Francisco, California. Her work is held in numerous permanent collections including the Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, NC; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC; National Academy of Design, New York, NY; and The Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, SC.

Very good condition.