Biltmore Galleries

Biography

Alice Coutts b. 1879 England d. 1973 California (Alice Grey Hobbs Bolton) Her art education began as a teenager in Paris, where she met artist Gordon Coutts, marrying him in San Francisco in 1904 and moving there in 1906 after a world tour. Her most productive painting period was during this first marriage and she traveled extensively through Europe and Hawaii. In 1917 she divorced, marrying Frederick Bolton the following year. Even though they also traveled, her sketching was mostly for her own pleasure from this time and she became more reclusive. Her paintings of the California Pomo tribe and the Hopi of Northern Arizona are the most popular. paraphrased from AskArt.