About Trude Hanscom
Lived 1890 – 1975 (aged 84–85). Trude Hanscom was a painter.
Gertrude "Trude" Hanscom née Gertrude Fandrich (December 6, 1890 - June 7, 1975) was an American painter, printmaker, and teacher.
Early life
Hanscom was born on December 6, 1890 in Oil City, Pennsylvania and raised in Waterloo, New York.
Education Hanscom worked as a stenographer in Geneva, New York, eventually studying art at Syracuse University and Kline's School of Graphic Arts at the Syracuse Museum of Fine Art. In California, she studied at Otis College of Art and Design, USC, and the UCLA, also studying privately under the direction of western landscapist Sam Hyde Harris. the Wichita Art Museum.
Awards and recognition Julia Ellsworth Ford Prize for Oil Painting, 1943. Honorary Life Membership, Society of American Graphic Artists, 1965.
Select works Soledad, 1930
Personal life In the late 1920s, Hanscom married Charles G. Hanscom.
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