Biography from Pierce Galleries, Inc.:
|  Paulette VanRoekens was born in Chateau-Thierry, France on New Year's
day 1896, the daughter of Victor and Jeanne VanRoekens. She
attended the Philadelphia School of Art, Science & Industry; the
Graphic Sketch Club and the Pennsylvania Academy of Design
(Philadelphia)with Samuel Murray, L.G Seyffert, J. Pearson, H.B. Snell
and Charles Grafly.
From 1920-1923 she lived and painted at Long Wharf in Newport
(RI). She became a close friend of Old Lyme mentor Charles H.
Davis.
Awards include: Plastic Club (gold); Philadelphia Sketch Club (medal);
PAFA Fellowship Prize; Woodmere Art Gallery (2nd Prize; honorable
mention 1956; Mary T. Mason prize, 1965). Work represented at: PAFA;
Reading Museum; Penn. State College; School of Design for Women;
Graphic Art Club; Woodmere Art Gallery; Allentown Museum; Bucks Country
School Board; Laurel Highlands (Ligonier, PA).
She exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery (Washington, D.C.) annuals and at
the NAD; Art Institute of Chicago; PAFA; Albright Art Gallery
(Buffalo); Carnegie Institute (Pittsburgh, PA; Mint Museum (Charlotte,
NC); Detroit Institute of Art (MI); Newport AA (RI) and in collections
in South America. Van Roekens was given 14 solo shows including The
Newport AA (1920, 1950), the Womens City Club (1939), McClees Gallery
(PA, 1946), Philadelphia Art Alliance (1951), Moore Institute of Art
(1961)and ten duo shows with her husband and fellow painter Arthur
Meltzer (whom she married in 1927.
Positions: Instructor of drawing and painting in the Life Class at the
Moore College of Art (1923-1961). She received a L.H.D. from Moore
College (1961).
Style: impressionism. Typical subject matter: Country Fairs, beaches,
picnics, circus scenes, ballet scenes, still lifes and women marching
for Voting rights. Her canvases were quickly executed and are filled
with bold color. Throughout her artistic career she fought to inform
the public of the importance of American female painter's work.
VanRoekens and Meltzer lived in their Trevose, PA home from 1927 until
their deaths. VanRoekens died in Pennsylvania on January 11, 1988.
Written and submitted by Patricia Jobe Pierce, historian |
Biography from Newman Galleries:
|  Paulette Van Roekens was born in France in 1896. She studied at
the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, The Pennsylvania Academy
of Fine Arts, the Graphic Sketch Club, and also with Henry Snell,
Joseph Pierson and Leopold Seyffert. Painting in oils and pastels, her
technique is colorful and impressionistic.
The artist’s works
are at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, the
Reading Museum, the Woodmere Art Museum, the School of Design for Women
Alumnae in Philadelphia (Moore College of Art and Design), and the
Allentown Art Museum.
Her paintings have been exhibited at the
Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, the Chicago Art Institute, Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh,
and the National Academy of Design in New York. She has also had
numerous solo shows.
Ms. Van Roekens was an instructor at the
Graphic Sketch Club, 1920 – 27 and assistant professor of painting and
drawing at Moore College of Art, 1923-61. She was married to
noted painter Arthur Meltzer. In the early 1940's, the couple lived
in their Trevose home until representatives for the Pennsylvania
Turnpike purchased their property. In 1949, they moved to Huntingdon
Valley.
Among her awards are the Bronze
Medal First Prize at the Philadelphia Sketch Club; gold Medal First
Prize from the Plastic Club, and the Mary T. Mason Prize at the
Woodmere Art Museum in 1965.
The artist died in 1988. |
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