Adelia Armstrong Lutz
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Self-portrait
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| Born |
Adelia Armstrong June 25, 1859 Jefferson County, Tennessee, United States |
| Died | November 17, 1931 (aged 72) Knoxville, Tennessee |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Corcoran Gallery; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts |
| Known for | Painting |
Adelia Armstrong Lutz (/lʌts/; June 25, 1859 – November 17, 1931) was an American artist active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She organized art circles in Knoxville, Tennessee, as director of the Knoxville Art Club and as a co-organizer of the Nicholson Art League. Her still lifes and portraits were exhibited throughout the American South, and they are to be the subject of a permanent exhibit by the Knoxville Museum of Art at her former home.
Lutz's home in Knoxville, Westwood, has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Lutz was born Adelia Ann Armstrong at the home of her maternal grandparents in Jefferson County, Tennessee. She was the daughter of Robert and Louise (Franklin) Armstrong, and granddaughter of Drury Armstrong, an early Knoxville landowner whose house, Crescent Bend, still stands on Kingston Pike. She spent her childhood in the antebellum mansion built by her father, Bleak House. Lutz was a sister-in-law of novelist Anne W. Armstrong (1872–1958), who married Lutz's brother, Robert Franklin Armstrong, in 1905.
Lutz attended the East Tennessee Female Institute in Knoxville in the early 1870s, where she was a classmate of future Knoxville philanthropist Mary Boyce Temple. She later attended the Southern Home School in Baltimore and Augusta Seminary (Mary Baldwin College) in Staunton, Virginia. She continued her art training at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. During this period, she toured Europe.
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