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Alice Schille (1869-1955), a native of Columbus, Ohio, was one of the most-celebrated watercolorists of the twentieth century whose work drew international acclaim. Her exhibition history and laudatory critical reception reveal her involvement in early modernist watercolor painting in the United States. In exhibitions her works hung alongside those of George Bellows, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, and Edward Henry Potthast, among others. For a variety of reasons, Schille and her work was relegated to the sidelines of art history. This work, based on new and extensive research analyzes Schille's life and art as it probes the myriad issues that women artists endured, which caused them to slip from the annals of art history.