Isabelle Clark Percy West

Isabelle Clark Percy West (née Percy; 1882 – 1976) was an American painter, printmaker, designer, and educator. She was known for landscape paintings, botanical paintings, and early etchings of the Pacific Coast. She was part of the founding faculty of California College of the Arts in Oakland, California.

Early life and education Isabelle Clark Percy was born on November 6, 1882, in Alameda, California. Her mother was Emma Washburn (née Clark) was from Portland, Maine, from a family that descended from the Mayflower colonists. Her father was George W. Percy a noted San Francisco architect from Bath, Maine. She grew up in Oakland, California; with a break from 1894 until 1896 to attended the Fort Wayne School for Girls in Portland, Maine.

Percy studied at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art (later known as San Francisco Art Institute), in San Francisco, under Arthur Frank Mathews. Percy graduated from the Art Department of Teachers College, Columbia University in 1907. After graduation, she travelled and studied in Europe for a few years.

In 1911, she received an honorable mention at the Paris Salon.

Legacy Percy West died on August 25, 1976 in Greenbrae, California.

Percy West's work is held in collections at Mills College Art Museum in Oakland, California.

Exhibitions Percy West exhibited nationally in San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago, Hawaii and New York as well as internationally in Paris and Germany. 2020, Feminizing Permanence, Saint Mary's College Museum of Art, Moraga, California