Quita Brodhead
American painter, 1901–2002
Person TypeIndividual
Terms
- female
American artist, 1877–1962
American painter and illustrator, 1874–1961
American painter and educator, 1913–2001
American fantasy novelist and illustrator, born 1953
Quita Brodhead
BiographyBorn in Wilmington, Delaware, Brodhead studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with Arthur B. Carles and in Paris. Primarily an abstract painter, Brodhead was an instructor of painting at Bryn Mawr College and active in the Philadelphia art scene for most of her long life. In 2001, the Pennsylvania Academy organized a major retrospective of her work in honor of her 100th birthday.
