Eleanor Ingersoll Maurice 1901-1995

               Eleanore lived a very long and full life. She was as independent woman who worked and lived in New Jersey. She was an artist who represented many different styles of art, oils, watercolors, pencil drawings and collages just to name a few. Her subjects include landscapes, flowers and flower markets, people and animals, seascapes and waterfronts to farms and farm workers. Her inspiration came from traveling throughout the world.
                Named for her mother, she was born Eleanore Bond Ingersoll on September 4, 1901 in East Orange, New Jersey. Her parents were of the well to do. Her mother was Eleanore Bond Ingersoll and her father was Charles H. Ingersoll, one of the inventors of the dollar pocket watch and a politician in the early 1900's. As a child she studied at the Beard School for Girls in New Jersey and later went on to the prestigious Art Students League in New York City. In the 1920's she worked at Hattie Carnegie as a designer and seamstress. For 12 years she worked as an independent woman.
                  In 1934 she married Raymond Maurice and started a family. After taking up residence in Montclair, NJ, she started her painting career form her home studio. For thirty years she sailed around the world in search of inspiration. She gave demonstrations while on shipboard. During her travels to Africa, Europe, South America and the Carribean as well as her homeland. She met many people and saw many locations that were not known for touism. Her artwork represents the many people and places that she loved. While at home she juried art shows, gave demonstrations for various groups, as well as private lessons in her studio. She accumulated over one hundred awards and held numerous
prestigious memberships.
         American Watercolor Society (1954-1995)
         Art Students League
         Audubon Artists
         New Jersey Watercolor Society
         Associated Artists of New Jersey
         National Arts Club

        Allied Artists
        National Academy of Design
                During the years she presented many one woman shows and taught art at the Art Center of the Oranges. Her work was represented in museums and private collections worldwide. Including the Montclair Art Museum and the Smithsonian Institute. Her name has been recognized in a number of publications, Who's Who in American Art, Who's Who in the East, American Artists of Renown, and Women Artist of America. She also contributed to One Hundred Watercolor Techniques, by Norman Kent. In the 1980's her art was featured at the Chime Art Gallery in Summit, New Jersey. In 1984 she was commissioned to design the cover of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundations annual report.
                In 1992, before moving to Arizona with her family, the Montclair Art Museum hosted a retrospective of 200 paintings for sale. Where most of the proceeds benefitng the Montclair Historical Society. 
      After suffering many strokes in the late 1980's she put her paintbrush down after a very long career.She died in her home in 1995 at 93 years of age. Her daughter Gail Hoeck contiued to paint and teach.