Elsie Driggs

The artist

Elizabeth Driggs, Connecticut (sister of the above)

Acquired from the above circa 1990 by the present owner

Trenton, New Jersey State Museum and Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Elsie Driggs: A Woman of Genius, 1990-91, no. 3, fig. 8, pp. 14-16 and 41, illustrated

Doylestown, Pennsylvania, James A. Michener Art Museum, Elsie Driggs: The Quick and the Classical, 2008, no. 5, pp. 24, 65, and 124, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Knoxville, Tennessee, Knoxville Museum of Art and Bayside, New York, Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, American Women Arts: The 20th Century, 1989-90, p. 15

After studying at the Art Students League of New York, Elsie Driggs traveled in Europe for fourteen months where she developed her signature Precisionist style and painted the present work. Italian Vineyard was the first of only six Precisionist paintings by Driggs, who was the only female contributor to the American movement.