About Sue May Gill
Lived 1887 – 1989 (aged 102). Sue May Gill was an American painter.
Sue May Gailey Wescott Gill was an American artist and member of the Philadelphia Ten.
Life Sue May Gill was born on January 12, 1887, in Sabinal, Texas. The second child of Asa Jones Gailey and Sue Louise Connally, she studied at the Chicago Art Institute, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Academie Colarossi in Paris. Gill married Orville D. Wescott, a physician residing in Denver, Colorado in 1908, and had a daughter in 1915. She and Wescott divorced in 1928, and she later married Paul L. Gill, with whom she lived in Harvey Cedars, New Jersey.
Gill had a one-woman show at the Art Club of Philadelphia in 1930. In 1931 she joined the Philadelphia Ten group and served as its chairman from 1934 through 1935.
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American artist (1887–1989)
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Sue May Gill was born on 12 January 1887 in Sabinal.
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Sue May Gill died on 14 January 1989 in Topton.
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Sue May Gill was a painter.
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