{{Short description|American painter}} {{Infobox artist | name = Eleanor Abrams | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth year|1885}} | birth_place = Karns City, Pennsylvania | death_date = {{Death year and age|1967 |1885}} | death_place = | education = Philadelphia School of Design | field = Painting | training = | movement = | works = | patrons = | awards = | spouse = | partner = }}
'''Eleanor Abrams''' (1885 - 1967) was an American painter. She was an original member of the Philadelphia Ten.<ref name="askART">{{cite web|title=Eleanor Abrams (1885 - 1967)|url=http://www.askart.com/artist_bio/Eleanor_Abrams/107245/Eleanor_Abrams.aspx|website=askART|accessdate=14 April 2018}}</ref>
==Biography== Abrams was born in 1885 in Butler County, Pennsylvania. She worked as an occupational therapist, known as Reconstruction Aides,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gutman |first=Sharon A. |date=1995-03-01 |title=Influence of the U.S. Military and Occupational Therapy Reconstruction Aides in World War I on the Development of Occupational Therapy |url=https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.49.3.256 |journal=The American Journal of Occupational Therapy |volume=49 |issue=3 |pages=256–262 |doi=10.5014/ajot.49.3.256 |issn=0272-9490|url-access=subscription }}</ref> during WWI.<ref name="askART"/>
Abrams moved to Philadelphia at the age of twenty where she shared a studio with Edith Lucile Howard and Cora S. Brooks. She spent time in New York where she shared a studio with Mary Elizabeth Price.<ref name="Gratz">{{cite web|title=Eleanor Abrams|url=http://www.gratzgallery.com/inventory/index.php?page=out&id=144|website=Gratz Gallery & Conservation Studio|accessdate=14 April 2018}}</ref>
She attended the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, studying under Henry B. Snell and Elliott Daingerfield.<ref name="Gratz"/> She graduated in 1908.<ref name="askART"/>
From a wealthy family, she was able to spend the winter months in Bermuda and draw inspiration from the gardens there.<ref name="Gratz"/> Abrams specialized in painting flowers, exhibiting at The Plastic Club,<ref name="Gratz"/> the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh,<ref name="Gratz"/> and the Philadelphia Ten<ref name="Moore">{{cite web|title=The Philadelphia Ten|url=http://moorewomenartists.org/philad/|website=Moore Women Artists|accessdate=14 April 2018}}</ref>
Abrams died in 1967.<ref name="askART"/>
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