pencil signed, image area 7" X 7", well listed South Carolina artist.....South Carolina artist, Elizabeth Quale O'Neill was born December 21, 1883, at 38 Chalmers Street in Charleston, South Carolina. She was one of 11 sisters and 2 brothers. She showed an early interest in art. Starting in her teen years, she began painting cityscapes of Charleston and set up her first studio in the rear of her parents' house at 43 Legare Street.O'Neill-Verner studied at the Pennsylvania Academy (1901 to 1903) with Thomas Anchutz as a teenager. She remained in the realist school of painting as exemplified by Thomas Eakins when the art world was swept away by the international modernist movement. Her sex was no hindrance to success and she was showered with acclaim and honors.In 1907, she married E. Pettigrew Verner, together they had two children, Elizabeth Pettigrew (born 1908) and David Battle (born 1911). From 1910 to 1936, she had her second studio in the garden at 3 Atlantic Street and also shared other studio space with Alice Huger Ravenel Smith. In the early 1920's she began etching and widely exhibiting. Her husband, E. Pettigrew Verner died in 1925.She attended the London Central Arts School as an honored artist in 1930 and traveled Europe, while abroad. She married Thomas E. Myers in 1932, ceased etching in 1933 and in 1935 T.E. Myers died. Her third studio (1936) was at 85 Church Street in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1937 she traveled to Japan and produced drypoints of Japan, but by 1937 she began work as a pastelist.In 1938, she established her fourth and last studio at 38 Tradd Street, Charleston, South Carolina. During this time she traveled to the Caribbean, Mexico, Europe, the Orient and produced pastels and watercolors from her trips. In 1968 she suffered a broken back and in 1979 she died in Charleston.Her long career, which stretched from the turn of the Twentieth Century until her last large work in 1967, include all the etchings that were made between 1925 and 1932 and all the drypoints that were produced between 1932 and 1937.Source:Verner Gallery

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