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|  An instructor of painting at Bryn Mawr College and long-time active in the Philadelphia area art community as a portrait and abstract painter, Quita Brodhead was honored in 2001 with a special exhibition by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for her centennial birthday. The show traced her career from representational portraiture to abstract imagery.
Brodhead was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She studied in Paris at the Academy de la Grande Chaumiere and with Alexander Archipenko. She entered the Pennsylvania Academy in 1919 and left the school in 1925 when her chief mentor, Arthur Carles, departed. Her career began in 1929 when she was commissioned to paint the murals of St. John's Episcopal Church in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. She returned to the Academy from 1935 to 1950 to serve on the Board of Fellowship.
Brodhead was born with the name Marie Waggaman Berl but changed her name to Quita as a result of her father calling her Mariequita--Little Marie.
She was married to Truxtun Read Brodhead, and had three children and then divorced. She died on September 4, 2002 in Bryn Mawr.
Source: Obituary in "New York Times" 9/19/2002 |
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