Adelia Armstrong Lutz

Adelia Armstrong Lutz
Self-portrait
Born
Adelia Armstrong

(1859-06-25)June 25, 1859[1]
Jefferson County, Tennessee, United States
DiedNovember 17, 1931(1931-11-17) (aged 72)[1]
Knoxville, Tennessee
NationalityAmerican
EducationCorcoran Gallery; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts[1]
Known forPainting

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 at her former home, Historic Westwood.

Lutz's home in Knoxville, Westwood, has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

  1. ^ a b c Alice Howell, Lucile Deaderick (ed.), "Adelia Armstrong Lutz," Heart of the Valley: A History of Knoxville, Tennessee (Knoxville, Tenn.: East Tennessee Historical Society, 1976), pp. 561–562.