1936Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania EDUCATION 1959BFA with Honors, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 1958Certificate, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2004Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2002Elizabeth Osborne: 30 Years, Works on Paper, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2000Vantage, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1998Old Main Art Museum, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 1997Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1994Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, DC 1993North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND 1992Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1991Watercolors, Arronson Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA 1990University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA 1988Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1987Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY 1984Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY 1982Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY 1980Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY 1978Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1977Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, Ltd., New York, NY 1976Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1974Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, Ltd. New York, NY 1972Landscapes, Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1970Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1969American Consulate, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1967Peale Galleries, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Perakis Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1963Perakis Gallery, Philadelphia, PA SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2003Variable Geographies, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA University of Pennsylvania Alumni Exhibition, Kroiz Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2002Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, AZ 2000American Watercolors at the Pennsylvania Academy, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 1998Contemporary Colors: Works on Paper, The Monmouth Museum, Monmouth, NJ Flowers in Mind, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1997The Unbroken Line, Museum of American Art, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 1996Floral Fantasy, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA Twentieth Century Still Life, Museum of American Art, Philadelphia, PA 1995American Watercolors and Drawings, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, DC Department of Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Group Exhibition, William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, TX 1994Quartet: Four Pennsylvania Artists, Lebanon Valley College, Pennsylvania 1992Modern Still Life: Drawings, Watercolors and Collage from the Permanent Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA 1991Drawings Today, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1990Directions: Paintings, Sculpture and Prints, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Works on Paper, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, DC 1989Looking Back: The Seventies at Marian Locks, Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Group Exhibition, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY Art of the State: Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, PA Ninety-Second Annual Juried Exhibition, American College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, PA 1988Consonance, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, DC The Luther Brady Collection, Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY The Janss Collection, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID 1987Mainstream America: Collection of Phillip Desind, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH Group Exhibition, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY The Flower in Twentieth-Century American Art, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA 1986American Graphic Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Celebrating Philadelphia, Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1985-87American Realism: Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolors, organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, traveled to: DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, MA; Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; Art Museum, Akron, OH; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI 1985-86City Views, Panoramas to Particulars: Works from the CIGNA Collection, CIGNA Headquarters, Philadelphia, PA 1985American Realism, William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1983Tulip Time, Impressions Gallery, Boston, MA American Works on Paper (1883-1983), Keny and Johnson Gallery, Columbus, OH Realist Watercolors, Florida International University, Tamiami, FL 1982Collector's Art Gallery XVI, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX 1981A Feast for the Eyes; Contemporary Representations of Food, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY Still Life and Beyond, Silvermine Guild Galleries, New Canaan, CT Contemporary American Realism Since 1960, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; traveled to Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA and Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA 1980-81Still Life Today, Goddard-Riverside Community Center, New York, NY 1980Selections from the Fischbach Gallery, State University of New York, Cortland, NY Waterworks, University of North Dakota Galleries, Grand Forks, ND In Celebration of Prints, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA 1979Still Life Prints, Graphics I and II, Boston, MA Contemporary Drawings: Philadelphia II, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Women Artists in America, Allport Gallery, San Francisco, CA The New American Still Life, Westmoreland County Museum, Greensburg, PA Twenty-Five Pennsylvania Women Artists, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA Artist and Teacher, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 1978Painting and Sculpture Today 1978, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN 1977Group Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY Group Exhibition, Squibb Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey, NJ Contemporary Issues: Works on Paper by Women, Los Angeles, CA 1976Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia in Washington, Pyramid Gallery, Washington, DC In this Academy, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 1975Landscape, Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ Watercolor, U.S.A., Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO Five Pennsylvania Artists, Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, PA PMA at MCA, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA The Year of the Woman, Bronx Museum of Arts, Bronx, NY 1974Women's Work, American Art, Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center, Philadelphia, PA 1972The Topography of Nature, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 1969Group Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY 1968Group Exhibition, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, DC 1961-68Annual, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA SELECTED AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS 1989Percy M. Owens Memorial Award for a Distinguished Pennsylvania Artist, 92nd Annual Juried Exhibition, American College, Bryn Mawr, PA 1983MacDowell Colony Grant 1971Harrison S. Morris Prize, Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1968Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters 1964Ford Foundation Purchase Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1963Fulbright Scholarship, Paris 1958Scheidt Traveling Fellowship, Cresson Traveling Fellowship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1955Catherwood Traveling Fellowship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts TEACHING EXPERIENCE 1966-present, Professor, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 2001“Color-conscious.” The Pennsylvania Gazette, Alumni Magazine of The University of Pennsylvania, January/February, p. 60. 2000Elizabeth Osborne: Vantage. Essay by Donna Gustafson, Locks Gallery Publications, Philadelphia, PA. Lauer, David A. and Stephen Pentak. Design Basics. Harcourt Brace College Publishers, New York. Sozanski, Edward J. “The happy marriage of order and color.” The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 22. 1997Burgwyn, Diana. "Places of the Heart." Seven Arts, April. Elizabeth Osborne. Essay by C.K. Williams, Locks Gallery Publications, Philadelphia, PA. Lane, John. "Elizabeth Osborne: Artist with a Heart." Philadelphia Weekly Press, April 24. Rice, Robin. "Brave Paint: Elizabeth Osborne takes colorful risks." Philadelphia City Paper, May 9. Sozanski, Edward. "Oil landscapes with a feeling of movement." Philadelphia Inquirer, May 16. 1994Simpson, Eileen. Late Love. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Cover. 1993Scott, William P. "Elizabeth Osborne at Locks." Art in America, January. 1992Elizabeth Osborne. Essay by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy, Locks Gallery Publications, Philadelphia, PA. 1991Johnson, Ellen F. and Heidi A. Lang. Presswork: The Art of Women Printmakers. Catalogue of the Lang Communication Corporate Collection, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC. LeClair, Charles. Color in Contemporary Painting. Watson-Guptill Publications, New York. 1988Recent Acquisitions. Calendar, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, April. In Praise of Women Artists. Bo-Tree Calendar, Panz Corp., Los Angeles, California, Cover. 1987ARTS Magazine. Review by William Scott, October. 1986American Artist. February, Cover. Heinemann, Susan. Painting Flowers. Watson-Guptil Publications, New York. 1985LeClair, Charles. The Art of Watercolor. Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall, Inc., New Jersey. Martin, Alvin, foreword by Henry T. Hopkins, introduction by Glenn C. Janss. American Realism, Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolor from the Glenn C. Janss Collection. San Francisco Museum of Art in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York. Reader's Digest, March, Back Cover. 1983Contemporary Women Artists. Bo-Tree Engagement Calendar, Panz Corp., Los Angeles, California, Cover. Realist Watercolors. Exhibition catalogue, Visual Arts Gallery, Florida International University, Tamiami. 1982Baker, Kenneth. "New American Watercolor." Portfolio Magazine, September/October, Cover. Butera, Virginia. “Elizabeth Osborne." ARTS Magazine, May/June. 1981Goodyear, Frank. Contemporary Realism Since 1960, New York. Graphic Society with Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. 1980"Elizabeth Osborne." ARTS Magazine, June. Stein, Judith. “Portrait: Philadelphia." Portfolio Magazine, November/December. 1979Artist and Teacher, Exhibition catalogue, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. Hopf, Christine. "In Praise of Women Artists." 1978Wilson Library Bulletin, H.W. Wilson Co., New York, February, Cover. 1977ARTS Magazine. Review by Gordon Brown, September/October. Medoff, Eve. "Elizabeth Osborne, Painting with Light." American Artist, September/October, Cover and four illustrations. 1976Elizabeth Osborne: Paintings and Watercolors, Exhibition catalogue, Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. Stein, Judith. "Elizabeth Osborne at Locks" Art in America, July/August. 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