Olive Parker Black

American (1868-1948)

Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1868, Black was an accomplished landscape painter. She studied at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League with Hugh Bolton Jones and William Merritt Chase, also studying with Chase at his Shinnecock Summer School, where she was considered one of Chase’s best students. Black spent her summers in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts, where she developed many of the landscapes she is known for.

Black exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the National Academy of Design , the Boston Art Club, the Philadelphia Art Club and the Carnegie Institute. She was a member of the National Association of Women Artists, the New York Society of painters, American Artists Professional League and the Copley Society in Boston.