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Elsie Z. Wilde (1898-1991) Artist

Elsie Wilde had one of those wonderful idyllic lives straight out of a 1950s television show. Where women trained as artists, did New York fashion illustrations for a living until getting married, then moved to the suburbs and had enough wealth to spend the hot months up north and the cooler months down south.

Ms. Wilde was born in Paterson, NJ, had a studio in Glen Rock, NJ; summered in Rockport, and wintered in Florida. She painted portraits, landscapes and flowers; exhibited in important shows, i.e.; Ridgewood Art Association, Ridgewood, NJ, and won various awards, including the Rockport Art Association “most outstanding work in any medium by a new member from 1951 to 1953.”

She studied at the Art Students League and was a graduate of Parsons School of Fine and Applied Art. She did fashion work in New York and later studied with George Pearce Ennis, Jon Corbino, Luis Bosa, Junius Allen, as well as other eminent artists.

The two examples here: “Bathrobe on the Balcony” and the “The 1950s Florida Beach” shows off her commercial illustrative brushstroke that was so much a part of New York fashion background. She knew how to layer color, create shadows and crop painting to capture the composition.


On occasion her paintings and watercolors still show up at auction houses or ebay. She had a number of solo shows. Her studio was located at 51 Abbington Terrace, Glen Rock, New Jersey, a tree lined upscale neighborhood. And her publicity photo published in the Rockport Art Association Guide from 1956 shows her holding her brushes and wearing a painter’s smock, as she stares into the camera lens looking totally professional. She knew fashion and art.

Taken in part from "Artists of the Rockport Art Association - Thirty-Fifth Anniversary Edition"(1956)


“The 1950s Florida Beach”
Detail with Signature on lower Right
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  1. Olga's CookiesDecember 6, 2023 at 12:08 PM

    i believe I have an original painting by Artist Elsie Wilde, possibly of Rockport Maine lighthouse. The person whom I inheirited the painting from was also from Paterson NJ and a few years younger, but in the same age range. They most likely knew each other since he was an amature artist himself. The picture always hung in a prominate place in their home as it does in mine. The painting is in excellent condition with her signature in the left hand bottom corner. Do you have any information that would help me find the value as well as more information about the atrist? Any thing would be more than i have.

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  2. Waller Yoblonsky BlogspotDecember 8, 2023 at 3:19 PM

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    1. Waller Yoblonsky BlogspotDecember 8, 2023 at 5:23 PM

      Dear Olga's Cookies: Thanks for the question. To help me in answering your question; I would need to know the size, the condition of the frame, is it an oil on canvas - canvas-board, or Masonite. As a landscape painting, could the location be identified; for example, people love to buy painting of recognizable locations. If you would like, you could send me photographs of the painting, include the front and back. I can be reached at: tonywaller.va@gmail.com
      To give you a heads up, her works are dearly loved, however her works have not sold for big dollars based on research at Liveauctionners.

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