Emily Parker Groom

Emily Parker Groom (1876–1975) was an American artist born in Wayland, Massachusetts. She remained an active painter until the age of 97, spending nearly her entire career in Wisconsin, and died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Early life and education As a child, she attended weekly art lessons under Miss Alida Goodwin, a teacher at South Division High School and All Saints Cathedral Institute, where Emily later graduated. She simultaneously received private painting lessons from her father.

These experiences combined provided her with a unique early education compared to the primarily German-speaking community of artists in the area. She attended the Art Institute of Chicago with John Vanderpoel, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts under Edmund Tarbull, and participated in the Art Student's League in New York with Birge Harrison.

She was also a member of the Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors as well as the American Watercolor Society, the Chicago Gallery Association, Artists’ Equity, National Association of Woman Painters and Sculptors, Concord Art Association and both the Philadelphia, and New York Watercolor Club.

In the 1920s, Groom's work became more focused on watercolor and painting en plein air.

Exhibitions and major works In 1904 she entered a work at the Tenth Annual Exhibition of Art Students League of Chicago titled A Portrait of Mrs. Rollin B. Mallory.

The following is a list of Emily Parker Groom's solo exhibitions: F.H. Bressler Gallery (1917) Milwaukee Art Institute (1925) Thomas Dunbar Galleries (1926) Chicago Galleries Association (1929) Layton Art Gallery (1929, 1933, 1935, 1941) Milwaukee-Downer College (1936, 1947, 1955) Bressler Gallery (1937) Chapman Memorial Library (1938, 1943) Oshkosh Public Museum (1945) Paine Art Center (1958) Charles Allis Art Museum (1972) Lawerence University Wriston Art Center Galleries (2001) Charles Allis Art Museum (2002)