Clara Elizabeth Sackett

Impressionist Antique American Oil Painting Philadelphia Female Artist 1918

1918

Clara Elizabeth Sackett was educated in her profession at New York City and Paris, and has acquired prominence as a portrait painter in America. In 1913, she opened the Buffalo Guild of Applied Arts and was the first president. Sackett was put in charge of the art department at Cambridge Haskell School in 1922. In 1925, she had a studio at Hotel Astor, where she painted the portrait of the first officer killed in the Great War, Jeff Feigl. In 1926, she was sent to Lenox by the New York Art Center and placed in charge of the summer exhibition houses for their artists. Sackett had a studio in New York and spent her summers in Nova Scotia, or rarely, Westfield. She had miniature exhibits in several cities and at the New York Miniature Society. In 1933, she started the Guild of Applied Art in Chautauqua County.