Alice Acheson

Alice Acheson ( Stanley; August 12, 1895 – January 20, 1996) was an American painter and printmaker. Life Born in Charlevoix, Michigan, the daughter of artist Jane C. Stanley and the granddaughter of John Mix Stanley; her father, Louis Stanley, was a railroad lawyer. She grew up in Detroit. She majored in art at Wellesley College, where among her classmates was the sister of Dean Acheson, who introduced the couple; the two married in May 1917, the same month she graduated from college. She continued her artistic studies both before and after moving to Washington, D.C., with her husband, taking lessons at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Corcoran School of Art, and the school at the Phillips Collection. From 1919, she was active as an artist in Washington, eventually joining and exhibiting with the Society of Washington Artists, from which she received an honorable mention in 1940. She was also an active member of the Washington Water Color Club, the Artists Guild of Washington, and the National Association of Women Artists.