Grace Ravlin

Grace Ravlin studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and with William Merritt Chase at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She traveled extensively in Europe and North Africa before World War I, creating landscapes influenced by her journeys through France, Belgium, Spain, and Morocco. In Paris, Ravlin trained with Simon-Menard Cour and exhibited with the Peintres Orientalistes Francais. She gained recognition from the French art press and was a member of the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts and Salon d’Automne. During World War I, she served as a nurse’s aide with the Red Cross and worked in Paris. After the war, she focused on painting in the U.S., particularly in Cape Ann, Massachusetts, and the Southwest, where she became known for her impressionistic studies of Native American ceremonials. Ravlin also painted scenes of New York and Mexico City, praised for her expressive brushwork and fresh use of color, often compared to modern French Post-Impressionist landscapes.