Emma Louise (Richardson) Cherry (Kansas, Texas, Colorado, Nebraska / Europe, 1859 - 1954) 1953 still life painting. OIl on board. Signed lower right. Inscribed verso. Cherry had a long list of exhibition credits including the 1893 Chicago Exposition; National Academy of Design; Art Institute of Chicago; Salon des Beaux Arts, Paris 1926; and National Exhibition of American Art at Rockefeller Center, 1937. And occasionally she returned to Nebraska where she was an exhibitor and gold medal winner with the Western Art Association in Omaha. Her work is in Nebraska public collections of Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln; and Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney. Museums representing her work in Texas are the Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin; San Antonio Museum of Art; Witte Museum, San Antonio; The Heritage Society; and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Other museum collections are Colorado Historical Society Denver Art Museum; and John H. Vanderpoel Art Association in Ridge Park, Illinois. Art association memberships were American Federation of Arts, Art Students League of New York, Denver and Houston Art Associations, Society of Independent Artists, Society of Western Artists, Southern States Art Association, and Texas Fine Arts Association. Sight Size: 17.5 x 24 in. Overall Framed Size: 25 x 31 in.