The Columbus Dispatch    Monday, November 7, 1955  Pg. 6 B 

Death Takes Alice Schille, Art Teacher

Miss Alice Schille, 86, well-known Columbus artist and art teacher, died
Sunday in Mercy Hospital where she had spent the last three years.

Miss Schille, who formerly lived at 1166 Bryden Rd. had been in ill health
nearly 10 years.  Death came from pneumonia.  

Widely-traveled, known in art circles throughout this country and abroad,
Miss Schille produced hundreds of oil paintings, portraits and watercolors
during her long career.  For more than 40 years, she was an instructor at
the Columbus Art School.

OLDEST SURVIVING member of Peter Schille [family], founder of a bottling
concern here, Miss Schille was born in Columbus August 21, 1869.

She decided early on an artistic career, painted her first picture at 6, and
went to New York to study after graduating from Central High School.

After New York, she studied in Paris, Philadelphia and at the Columbus Art
School.  Later, as an established artist, Miss Schille traveled all over the
world gathering material and background for her work.

Exhibitions of her work were held in Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, New
York and Philadelphia, as well as the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts and the
Southern Hotel Gallery.

She was a member of the National Association of Women's Artists, the New York
Water Color Club, the Pennsylvania Academy of fine arts, the National Associ-
ation of Arts and Letters, Art League of Columbus, Ohio Water Color Society,
American Water Color Club, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Art Club and the Cr-
ichton Club.

Miss Schille is survived by two sisters, Mrs. John M. Bobb of 1221 Bryden Rd.
and Mrs. Howard Walling of 1166 Bryden Rd. and several nieces.

Private service, by Schoedinger & Co., will be held Wednesday.  The family has
asked that flowers be omitted.

Transcribed by Mary Anthony Holland    mholland@cfl.rr.com