Bertha C. Day is primarily known as Bertha Corson Day Bates
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Bertha Corson Day Bates (1875-1968)
Bertha Corson Day was born in Philadelphia and grew up in
Germantown. Her cousin was married to the popular artist Thomas
Hovenden, and Bertha Day posed for his painting Bringing Home the Bride.
She enrolled in the Drexel Institute art department in 1892; her
teachers included sculptor Charles Grafly and watercolorist Lydia
Austin. She became a friend of Lydia Austin and her husband
Maxfield Parrish.
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