Alice Ruggles Sohier

Alice Ruggles Sohier (1880–1969) was an American artist, known for paintings of figures, portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. She was an active artist between 1900 until around c.1959.

Life Alice Ruggles was born in 1880. The daughter of Frederick Huntington and Ruth Alice Swan, raised in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston. She graduated high school in 1899. From 1900 until 1902, Sohier attended Art Students League of Buffalo, studying under Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock.

During his second year at Harvard, future US President Franklin D. Roosevelt briefly courted Sohier before proposing to her. Sohier turned down his proposal.

In 1904, she studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Museum School), with Edmund C. Tarbell and Frank Weston Benson. She was an early member of The Guild of Boston Artists.

She died in May 1969 in Concord, Massachusetts. Butler Institute of American Art, Zanesville Museum of Art, Frick Art Reference Library, among others