Ellen Ravenscroft (1876–1949) was an American painter and printmaker. Ravenscroft was born in 1876 in

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. Ravenscroft studied under

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and

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, and had lessons in Paris with

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. Among the awards which she received during her career were the portrait prize of the Catherline Lorillard Wolfe Art Club in 1905; the same institution's landscape prize in 1915; and a special prize and honorable mention from the

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in 1923. She was a founder member of the

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, of which she served as president in 1941. She also founded the Studio Gallery on Fifth Avenue. She was active in

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in the 1920s, but by 1926 had relocated to

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. She was known for her white-line woodblock technique. Ravenscroft died in 1949 in New York.

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* 1876 births 1949 deaths American women printmakers 20th-century American painters 20th-century American printmakers 20th-century American women painters Students of William Merritt Chase Students of Robert Henri Artists from Jackson, Mississippi Painters from Mississippi {{US-painter-1870s-stub