Biography:

Elizabeth Osborne, born in Philadelphia PA, has exhibited extensively throughout the United States for over forty years. She lives and works in Philadelphia.

Her work is included in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia; The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg; the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington; and the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX. Recent solo exhibitions include J. Cacciola Gallery, New York; and The Print Center, Philadelphia.

Osborne has received numerous awards including the Percy M. Owens Memorial Award, a MacDowell Colony Grant, the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award (American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters), and a Fulbright Fellowship. Osborne has been an instructor at the Pennsylvannia Academy of Fine Arts since 1966.

EDUCATION

1959 B.F.A., University of Pennsylvania, Philadephia, PA 1954-58 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009 Elizabeth Osborne: The Color of Light, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1998 Old Main Art Museum, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ

1993-94 North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND

1991 Watercolors, Arronson Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1990 University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1969 American Consulate, Sao Paulo, Brazil?

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011

Flirting with Abstraction, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Anatomy Now, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2010

Women Artists from Permanent Collection, Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA

Narcissus in the Studio: Artist Portraits & Self-Portraits, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Same/Difference, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2008

Main Line Collects Philadelphia, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA

Invited Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2007

PAFA Alumni Show, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2006

Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, D.C.

2005

In Full View: American Painting From 1720 to 2005, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

The Academy at Penn, Kroiz Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

2004

Light, Line and Color, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

SELECTED AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

1989

Percy M. Owens Memorial Award for a Distinguished Pennsylvania Artist, 92nd Annual Juried Exhibition, American College, Bryn Mawr, PA

1983

MacDowell Colony Grant 1971 Harrison S. Morris Prize, Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

1968

Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters

1964

Ford Foundation Purchase Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

1963

Fulbright Scholarship, Paris, France

1958

Scheidt Traveling Fellowship, Cresson Traveling Fellowship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

1955

Catherwood Traveling Fellowship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1966-2011 Professor, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

American Re-Insurance, New York, NY

AT&T, New York, NY

Brown, Wood, Ivey, Mitchell, and Petty, New York, NY

Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY

Chemical Bank, New York, NY

CIGNA, Philadelphia, PA

Commerce Bancshares, Inc., Kansas City, MO

Dechert, Price and Rhoads, Philadelphia, PA

Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE

Duane, Morris, and Heckscher, Philadelphia, PA

First Pennsylvania Bank, Philadelphia, PA

Lehman Brothers, New York, NY

Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY

Pittsburgh Plate Glass, Pittsburgh, PA

The Print Club of Philadelphia, PA

Provident National Bank, Philadelphia, PA

Rahr-West Museum, Manitowoc, WI

Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA

Shaw, Pittman, Potts, and Trowbridge, New York, NY

Simpson Thacher, Bartlett, New York, NY

The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA

UniDynamics Corporation, Stamford, CT

Westinghouse Corporation, New York, NY

Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA