Elizabeth Norton

Elizabeth Sawyer Norton (1887–1985) was an American artist, known for her bronze sculptures, paintings, and printmaking. The subject of her work often featured animals, landscapes and/or portraits. She lived in Palo Alto, California, from 1919 until her death in 1985.

Early life and education Elizabeth Sawyer Norton was born December 16, 1887, in Chicago, Illinois, to lawyer James Sanger Norton (1844–1896) and Frances Julia Rumsey (1850–1933).

Norton studied fine art at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1910.

Career Norton had a successful career and exhibited her art in many galleries in New York City.

She had an older sister named Frances Sanger Norton (married name, Brown) that had moved to Palo Alto, California because her husband Harry Brown was a professor in the Philosophy Department at Stanford University. Norton traveled to California in 1915 to attend to Panama–Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) and to visit her sister.

When Norton moved to California she became interested in printmaking, prior to which she primarily worked in sculpture, pastels, and oil paint. Norton was a founding member of the Palo Alto Art Club (now the Pacific Art League) in 1921. Norton was a member of the California Society of Etchers; Palo Alto Art Club (now known as the Pacific Art League); American Federation of Arts; and San Francisco Women Painters. the Fogg Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery, among others. 1939 – Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, California 1942 – National Academy of Design, New York City, New York 1944 – American Color Print Society, New York City, New York 1946 – Wichita Art Association, Wichita, Kanas 1950 – Stanford University, Stanford, California