Alice Kent Stoddard

She married late in life to Joseph Pearson, who had been a friend and taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

[1] She rented and then bought her cousin's house known as Rockwell Kent Cottage and Studio in Monhegan, Maine.

[3][4] She was good friends with fellow artist Joseph Thurman Pearson Jr., who taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Woodmere Art Museum states, "Here she masterfully conveys the intimacy of family life... Virginia pauses while knitting, seemingly lost in thought.

The large, rectangular space between the two women emphasizes the psychological distance between them in their respective moments of quiet contemplation.

[11] During World War II she worked as a mechanical draftsperson for airplane design for Budd Company[9] and as a combat artist.

Alice Kent Stoddard, (American, 1883-1976), Leila, 1915, oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in., Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania, Gift, George D. Horst
Monhegan Island Harbor Looking Toward Manana, 1910, The Monhegan Museum, Maine
Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones , 1910, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Fisherman's Little Sister, 1915, Dallas Museum of Art