CLARA E. PECK, NOTED ARTIST, DIES SATURDAY
Mrs. J. Scott Williams, 84, 965 Highland Ave., an artist who attained a wide reputation. She was as an illustrator for magazines of national circulation and who was known, professionally as Clara Elsene Peck, died at 8:05 o'clock Saturday at the Warner Hospital.
She had been admitted as a patient there earlier in the day but had been in ill health for two years.
She was a native of Allegan, Mich., and was a daughter of the late Anning Richarson and Mary Elsene Peck. She was a student of the Academy of Fine Arts, the Minnesota School of Fine Art from 1904-1905, and the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts in 1905-07.
WORK USED NATIONALLY
She married J. Scott Williams in 1908 and is survived by two sons, Aynard Scott Williams, Fayson Lakes, N.J., and Prof. Conway Scott Williams of Gettysburg College. There are four grandchildren.
She was known for her portraits and paintings in the 1903-07 period and had an international regulation as an illustrator specializing in drawing women and children. Her style was specially appropriate for illustrative work she did for such magazines as Colliers, Good Housekeeping, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Theater Magazine, the Ladies Home Journal, the Woman's Home Companion and others in the 1903 to 1937 period. She also illustrated national advertising campaigns for Proctor and Gamble, Kolynos toothpaste, Gorham silver and Metropolitan Life among others up to in 1940. She had conducted one-man art shows in Brooklyn, Engleweed, N.J.; Evanston, Ill., New Canaan Coun., and in Gettysburg. She had exhibited in group shows at the American Watercolor Association, Architectural League, National Arts Club, the Brooklyn Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and at Hagerstown.
FUNERAL TUESDAY
Mrs. Peck was a Fellow of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, a member of the American Water Color Society, Arts and Crafts Guild of Adams county, and the YWCA and the Woman's League of Gettysburg College.
Sine the 1940's, she had been a free lance artist working in oils, and pastels, watercolor painting and portroiture ranging from still life, landscapes and imaginative scenes to experimental oil enamels. She had also been an etcher in the 1920's.
The funeral services will be held at the Bender Funeral Home on Carlisle St., with Dr. Harold A. Dunkelberger of Gettysburg College officiating. Internment will be made in the Evergreen Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home this evening.
The Gettysburg Times
{Gettysburg, Pennsylvania}
February 26 1968
Mrs. Clara Peck Williams, Gettysburg, contributed a beautiful painting to the hospital which will be placed in the waiting room. Mrs. Peck, who is 83 years "young", paints under her maiden name, "Clara Peck", and has held several exhibits in the local YWCA. This gift was accepted with "sincere thanks."
The Gettysburg Times
{Gettysburg, Pennsylvania}
April 22 1966
Mrs. J. Scott Williams, 84, 965 Highland Ave., an artist who attained a wide reputation. She was as an illustrator for magazines of national circulation and who was known, professionally as Clara Elsene Peck, died at 8:05 o'clock Saturday at the Warner Hospital.
She had been admitted as a patient there earlier in the day but had been in ill health for two years.
She was a native of Allegan, Mich., and was a daughter of the late Anning Richarson and Mary Elsene Peck. She was a student of the Academy of Fine Arts, the Minnesota School of Fine Art from 1904-1905, and the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts in 1905-07.
WORK USED NATIONALLY
She married J. Scott Williams in 1908 and is survived by two sons, Aynard Scott Williams, Fayson Lakes, N.J., and Prof. Conway Scott Williams of Gettysburg College. There are four grandchildren.
She was known for her portraits and paintings in the 1903-07 period and had an international regulation as an illustrator specializing in drawing women and children. Her style was specially appropriate for illustrative work she did for such magazines as Colliers, Good Housekeeping, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Theater Magazine, the Ladies Home Journal, the Woman's Home Companion and others in the 1903 to 1937 period. She also illustrated national advertising campaigns for Proctor and Gamble, Kolynos toothpaste, Gorham silver and Metropolitan Life among others up to in 1940. She had conducted one-man art shows in Brooklyn, Engleweed, N.J.; Evanston, Ill., New Canaan Coun., and in Gettysburg. She had exhibited in group shows at the American Watercolor Association, Architectural League, National Arts Club, the Brooklyn Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and at Hagerstown.
FUNERAL TUESDAY
Mrs. Peck was a Fellow of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, a member of the American Water Color Society, Arts and Crafts Guild of Adams county, and the YWCA and the Woman's League of Gettysburg College.
Sine the 1940's, she had been a free lance artist working in oils, and pastels, watercolor painting and portroiture ranging from still life, landscapes and imaginative scenes to experimental oil enamels. She had also been an etcher in the 1920's.
The funeral services will be held at the Bender Funeral Home on Carlisle St., with Dr. Harold A. Dunkelberger of Gettysburg College officiating. Internment will be made in the Evergreen Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home this evening.
The Gettysburg Times
{Gettysburg, Pennsylvania}
February 26 1968
Mrs. Clara Peck Williams, Gettysburg, contributed a beautiful painting to the hospital which will be placed in the waiting room. Mrs. Peck, who is 83 years "young", paints under her maiden name, "Clara Peck", and has held several exhibits in the local YWCA. This gift was accepted with "sincere thanks."
The Gettysburg Times
{Gettysburg, Pennsylvania}
April 22 1966
CLARA E. PECK, NOTED ARTIST, DIES SATURDAY
Mrs. J. Scott Williams, 84, 965 Highland Ave., an artist who attained a wide reputation. She was as an illustrator for magazines of national circulation and who was known, professionally as Clara Elsene Peck, died at 8:05 o'clock Saturday at the Warner Hospital.
She had been admitted as a patient there earlier in the day but had been in ill health for two years.
She was a native of Allegan, Mich., and was a daughter of the late Anning Richarson and Mary Elsene Peck. She was a student of the Academy of Fine Arts, the Minnesota School of Fine Art from 1904-1905, and the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts in 1905-07.
WORK USED NATIONALLY
She married J. Scott Williams in 1908 and is survived by two sons, Aynard Scott Williams, Fayson Lakes, N.J., and Prof. Conway Scott Williams of Gettysburg College. There are four grandchildren.
She was known for her portraits and paintings in the 1903-07 period and had an international regulation as an illustrator specializing in drawing women and children. Her style was specially appropriate for illustrative work she did for such magazines as Colliers, Good Housekeeping, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Theater Magazine, the Ladies Home Journal, the Woman's Home Companion and others in the 1903 to 1937 period. She also illustrated national advertising campaigns for Proctor and Gamble, Kolynos toothpaste, Gorham silver and Metropolitan Life among others up to in 1940. She had conducted one-man art shows in Brooklyn, Engleweed, N.J.; Evanston, Ill., New Canaan Coun., and in Gettysburg. She had exhibited in group shows at the American Watercolor Association, Architectural League, National Arts Club, the Brooklyn Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and at Hagerstown.
FUNERAL TUESDAY
Mrs. Peck was a Fellow of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, a member of the American Water Color Society, Arts and Crafts Guild of Adams county, and the YWCA and the Woman's League of Gettysburg College.
Sine the 1940's, she had been a free lance artist working in oils, and pastels, watercolor painting and portroiture ranging from still life, landscapes and imaginative scenes to experimental oil enamels. She had also been an etcher in the 1920's.
The funeral services will be held at the Bender Funeral Home on Carlisle St., with Dr. Harold A. Dunkelberger of Gettysburg College officiating. Internment will be made in the Evergreen Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home this evening.
The Gettysburg Times
{Gettysburg, Pennsylvania}
February 26 1968
Mrs. Clara Peck Williams, Gettysburg, contributed a beautiful painting to the hospital which will be placed in the waiting room. Mrs. Peck, who is 83 years "young", paints under her maiden name, "Clara Peck", and has held several exhibits in the local YWCA. This gift was accepted with "sincere thanks."
The Gettysburg Times
{Gettysburg, Pennsylvania}
April 22 1966
Mrs. J. Scott Williams, 84, 965 Highland Ave., an artist who attained a wide reputation. She was as an illustrator for magazines of national circulation and who was known, professionally as Clara Elsene Peck, died at 8:05 o'clock Saturday at the Warner Hospital.
She had been admitted as a patient there earlier in the day but had been in ill health for two years.
She was a native of Allegan, Mich., and was a daughter of the late Anning Richarson and Mary Elsene Peck. She was a student of the Academy of Fine Arts, the Minnesota School of Fine Art from 1904-1905, and the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts in 1905-07.
WORK USED NATIONALLY
She married J. Scott Williams in 1908 and is survived by two sons, Aynard Scott Williams, Fayson Lakes, N.J., and Prof. Conway Scott Williams of Gettysburg College. There are four grandchildren.
She was known for her portraits and paintings in the 1903-07 period and had an international regulation as an illustrator specializing in drawing women and children. Her style was specially appropriate for illustrative work she did for such magazines as Colliers, Good Housekeeping, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Theater Magazine, the Ladies Home Journal, the Woman's Home Companion and others in the 1903 to 1937 period. She also illustrated national advertising campaigns for Proctor and Gamble, Kolynos toothpaste, Gorham silver and Metropolitan Life among others up to in 1940. She had conducted one-man art shows in Brooklyn, Engleweed, N.J.; Evanston, Ill., New Canaan Coun., and in Gettysburg. She had exhibited in group shows at the American Watercolor Association, Architectural League, National Arts Club, the Brooklyn Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and at Hagerstown.
FUNERAL TUESDAY
Mrs. Peck was a Fellow of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, a member of the American Water Color Society, Arts and Crafts Guild of Adams county, and the YWCA and the Woman's League of Gettysburg College.
Sine the 1940's, she had been a free lance artist working in oils, and pastels, watercolor painting and portroiture ranging from still life, landscapes and imaginative scenes to experimental oil enamels. She had also been an etcher in the 1920's.
The funeral services will be held at the Bender Funeral Home on Carlisle St., with Dr. Harold A. Dunkelberger of Gettysburg College officiating. Internment will be made in the Evergreen Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home this evening.
The Gettysburg Times
{Gettysburg, Pennsylvania}
February 26 1968
Mrs. Clara Peck Williams, Gettysburg, contributed a beautiful painting to the hospital which will be placed in the waiting room. Mrs. Peck, who is 83 years "young", paints under her maiden name, "Clara Peck", and has held several exhibits in the local YWCA. This gift was accepted with "sincere thanks."
The Gettysburg Times
{Gettysburg, Pennsylvania}
April 22 1966
