BIOGRAPHY
American 1901-2001
Huldah Cherry was born in 1901 in Dallas, Texas and was an accomplished figure painter who studied at the Art Student's League and Grand Central School in New York City. Her career as an artist began when she moved to New York where she was represented by noted art dealer Howard Young and had her paintings exhibited at Charles Lock Galleries and Wally Findlay Galleries in New York.
Her paintings focus on turn-of-the-century women and girls wearing fashionable clothes painted in an impressionist style and inspired by La Belle Epoque time period.
Huldah Mae Cherry married General J.E. Jeffe and is also known as Huldah Cherry Jeffe. Her paintings are housed in many museums and collections including The Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C. And her stylized figures gained a large amount of commercial succes and have been continually reprinted on Halmark Cards.
