Alice Schille. Alice Schille was an American watercolorist and painter from Columbus, Ohio.
She was renowned for her Impressionist and Post Impressionist paintings, which usually depicted scenes featuring markets, women, children, and landscapes. Her ability to capture the character of her subjects and landscapes often resulted in her winning the top prize in art competitions.
She was also known for her versatility in painting styles; her influences included the Dutch Old Masters, James McNeill Whistler, the Fauves, and Mexican muralists. Schille was born to wealth on August 21, 1869, to father Peter Schille and mother Sophia Green.
She traveled to multiple continents, including North and South America, Europe, and Africa, to develop her painting techniques. Her travels between multiple countries encouraged her to develop her complex and versatile art style; the amalgam of her travels reflected an in her paintings.
She attended the Columbus Art School beginning in 1891, and studied at the Art Students League of New York on a scholarship under American painter William Merritt Chase. There she studied figure drawing with American artist Kenyon Cox. In 1894 she went to Europe and remained there until 1900, in 1903 studying at the Academie Colarossi in Paris, later traveling extensively in the United States, Morocco, Egypt and abroad. For years she taught at the Columbus Art School, retiring in