Isabelle Hollister Tuttle (American, 1895-1978), Old Roses

Oil on canvas, signed at lower right, retaining artist label reading "Mrs. H. Emerson Tuttle, New Haven, Connecticut" to verso, presented in the original carved wood frame.

Stretcher size 12 1/2 x 16 5/8 in.

Rochester, New York-born artist Isabelle Hollister Tuttle spent the summers of her youth in Nantucket, where she befriended several artists including Maud Stumm. Later, she began artistic training under Josephine Cochrane and studied at the Yale School of Fine Art. In 1926, she moved to Nantucket; taking up residence at the old Jethro Coffin House on North Liberty Street with her husband, printmaker Henry Emerson Tuttle (1890 - 1946).

Isabelle Tuttle became a regular student of Frank Swift Chase (1886-1958), painting under his influence for three decades. From the mid-1960s she studied painting with Phillip Burnham Hicken. She exhibited at the Easy Street Gallery and joined the executive board of the Artists Association of Nantucket.

Very good condition.