Alice Beach Winter was a consummate American Impressionist painter and illustrator. She was considered the equal to her artist-husband Charles Allan Winter (who taught members of The Eight in Gloucester from 1869-1942) and her illustrations for books and commissioned portraits supported the couple for years.

The artist lived and exhibited in NYC (ca. 1910-1950), St. Louis (early 1890s) and East Pasadena, CA (1932) and summered in Gloucester. Her subjects and artist-circle were diverse. She concentrated on painting children’s portraits and illustrations until her husband’s death in 1942 because she did not want to compete with his landscape and murals. However, she painted approximately 30 large landscapes prior to 1942 and exhibited them at the PAFA in 1921.

Alice was born in Green Ridge, MSD in 1877 and was a painter, illustrator, sculptor and teacher. She studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts and at the Arts Students League (NYC) with George deForest Brush, Joseph DeCamp, J. Fry, C. Von Saltza and John H. Twachtman. She was highly influenced by the academic exactness of DeCamp and Brush’s drawings of the human figure and Twachtman’s poetical nature, as seen in his landscapes. 

Alice and Charles began summering Gloucester, MA in 1931 during the Great Depression and they became instrumental teachers on Cape Ann. To their summer studios came John Sloan, Robert Henri, Leon Kroll, A.T. Hibbard, W.L. Stevens, Jane Peterson and William Glackens, and days were spent painting on location and evenings were filled with talks of artistic techniques and trends.

Alice was a member of the National Association of Women Artists, the North Shore AA, Business & Professional Women’s Club, Gloucester; the Gloucester AA and other associations. She exhibited at the PAFA, the Chicago Art Institute, Carnegie Internationals and elsewhere. Her paintings appear in many books and magazines dating from 1930-1960, including the Delineator.