"My Studio Finger Lakes, NY"

Spartanburg, S. C. 1959 has been added to the label. what this means is not known.

Geraniums. Oil on canvas board.

"A Portrait of Susan"

Joan Poppe '58

(d. c.1972)
Active in Guild 1959-63

EDUCATION:

  • studied at The Pratt Institute

  • The Art Students League

  • Indianapolis Art School

  • Penland School of Crafts

  • with Frank Herring and Robert Miller at See-Celo School in Burnsville, N. C.

ART RELATED :

  • For many years, she was head of the Art Department of McCall's Magazine in N.Y.

  • Art Consultant and instructor of arts and crafts at the Cedar Spring School

  • Known for her striking portraits in pastel of children

  • Although she is known for her watercolors, in the last years of her life, she began learning how to paint with oils. Few of her oils are known to have survived. –Katie Hodge–

ORIGIN:

  • Born in New York City

  • last known Spartanburg address:
    (1961) 187 Oakland Ave.

PERSONAL:

  • (1960) was severely burned on Christmas morning from the gas stove in her kitchen. Was in Mary Black Hospital. Her apparently bathrobe caught on fire while she was cooking.

  • She rented a place upstairs near Wachovia Bank.