Biography

670 __ |a Davidson, S. C. Eleanor Norcross, Amy Cross, Edith Loring Getchell, 1980 (a.e.) |b t.p. (Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Mass.) p. 3 (most of Eleanor Norcross’ paintings are in the Fitchburg Art Museum) 670 __ |a Off. museum dir., 1978/79 |b (Mass., Fitchburg: Fitchburg Art Museum; f. 1925; non-profit org.) 675 __ |a Amer. art annual, v. 35, 1941-1942 (Fitchburg Art Center was est. in 1925 to house the Eleanor A. Norcross collection and to hold exhibitions, lectures, etc.)

Biography

Norcross was an impressionist artist and art collector, who lived much of her adult life in Paris, although she was raised in Fitchburg, MA. She frequently traveled in Europe and further abroad to collect objects for her personal collection and for the art museum she founded in her hometown. Sometime in the early 1890s, Mrs. Wheaton asked Norcross to identify and purchase artwork for the Seminary Art Collection when she next travelled to Europe. Among the works chosen by Norcross was a selection of Japanese woodblock prints, most of which are from the Edo Period.