page_title: Thelma Cudlipp
section_title: Artistic career
hierarchical_section_title: Thelma Cudlipp / Artistic career
caption_attribution_description: &quot;Mme. Geraldine Farrar in Greek Costume as Thaïs&quot; / Thelma Cudlipp frontispiece Woman as Decoration / Emily Burbank (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1917) image slightly altered (color, levels)
context_page_description: Thelma Somerville Cudlipp was an American artist and book illustrator.
context_section_description: In England, Cudlipp continued her training in art, winning but not accepting a Royal Academy scholarship. When she returned to the U.S., she took lessons from Kenneth Hayes Miller, one of Dreiser's friends.  She became well known as an illustrator for various newspapers and magazines, such as Harper's, The Century Magazine, McClure's, and The Saturday Evening Post. In addition to her own work, she developed an interest in pre-Columbian sculpture, which she collected and promoted through lectures. She later developed a friendship with Dreiser, but it was not of a romantic nature. They exchanged letters with each other until Dreiser's death.
  In 1932, Thelma had an exhibition of her paintings at the Marie Sterner Galleries. In 1933, she was "declared the winner of the popular prize of $25" for her painting, entitled Victorian Place, in the annual exhibition of the Newport Art Association.
caption: "Mme. Geraldine Farrar in Greek Costume as Thaïs" / Thelma Cudlipp frontispiece Woman as Decoration / Emily Burbank (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1917)
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