page_title: Hilda Belcher
section_title: Early years and education
hierarchical_section_title: Hilda Belcher / Early years and education
caption_attribution_description: English: Black and white reproduction of "Young Girl in White" by Hilda Belcher. Caption reads: From "Art and Progress." "Young Girl in White" by Hilda Belcher. Beal prize, New York Water Color Club, 1909.
context_page_description: Hilda Belcher was an American artist known for her paintings, watercolors, portraits, and illustrations depicting individuals and landscapes, both in formal portraiture and in casual scenes of children and daily life. She was the second woman to be accepted into the National Academy of Design. In 1935, Anne Miller Downes, a reviewer for The New York Times, called Belcher was "one of the most distinguished women artists in America".
context_section_description: Born in Pittsford, Vermont, in 1881, Belcher was the oldest child of Martha Wood Belcher, an artist, and Stephen Paterson Belcher, a manufacturer of stained glass. When she was a teenager, the family relocated to Newark, New Jersey, but retained their home in Vermont. Belcher graduated  from Newark High School in 1900.
  She later moved to New York City where she attended the New York School of Art. She studied with William Merritt Chase, Kenneth Hayes Miller, George Bellows and Robert Henri. She also attended the Art Students League of New York, where she later taught from 1910 to 1912 and again from 1918 to 1921.
caption: Black and white reproduction of Young Girl in White, Beal prize winner, 1909
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