b. 1883 d. 1976
Site Affiliation: James Fitzgerald – Rockwell Kent Historic Artists’ Home and Studio
Born in Watertown, CT, Stoddard spent many years in Philadelphia studying with William Sartain and Elliott Daingerfield at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (now the Moore College of Art and Design), and then with William Merritt Chase and Cecilia Beaux at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in the first decade of the twentieth century. At PAFA she won the First Toppan Prize in 1905, a traveling scholarship in 1905-1907, and two Mary Smith Prizes. She first visited Monhegan in 1909, and began painting the island that summer. Stoddard won awards and accolades for many of her Monhegan portraits including Gerald Stanley Lee, A Fisherman’s Sister, Child of Monhegan, and Fisherman Playing Cards. Stoddard was listed in Who’s Who in American Art the first year any women were listed in the book, and she was one of only four Monhegan women painters elected to the National Academy.
Primary Medium: Painter, Printmaker
Primary Stylistic Term: Portraits, American Impressionism
HAHS Affiliations: Stoddard was the cousin of Rockwell Kent.
Fun Fact: Alice Kent Stoddard painted five generations of Monhegan folks.