Boy Sleeping

Red and white chalk on brown paper with estate seal on reverse.

A lifelong Richmond resident, Houston was a painter, graphic artist and teacher. She received her training from K.H. Miller; B.P. Vonnoh; R. Henri; W. M. Chase. She also studied in Paris with Simon, Blanche, Menard, and Cotter. Houston exhibited at the Pennsylvania Fine Arts Academy (1918); Salons of America (1925, 1927, 1929, 1931-32, 1934); Society of Independent AArtists (1924-26, 1938); WMAA, 1937; GGE, 1939; and Virginia Museum of Fine Art (1940). She was also a member of the Southern States Art League. She is sometimes referred to as Eleanora Gibson Houston. Two of her paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Morris Museaum of Art in Atlanta, GA.

Nora Houston is listed in:
Falk, Peter Hastings (ed). Who Was Who in American Art. Connecticut: Sound View Press, 1999.
Opitz, Glenn B. (ed). Mantle Fielding’s Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers. New York: Apollo, 1986.
Wright, R. Lewis. Artists in Virginia Before 1900. Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1983.

Sight size: 6.5” x 7”
Frame size: 16.5” x 13.5”