Eloise W. Booth

Eloise W. Booth was born in Kansas in 1862. She was active as a painter in St. Joseph, Missouri, specializing in portraits and landscapes. She also gave lectures on art topics like “A Painter Group of the Middle West,” a talk she gave about artists showcased in an exhibit held by the St. Joseph Art League in 1922 (St. Joseph Gazette, February 9, 1922).

Booth was active in local clubs such as the Ne Quid Nimis Club, a women's organization, and other art organizations in St. Joseph, Missouri. She was one of the founding members of the St. Joseph Arts and Crafts Association, where she was elected as its first secretary, and was also a member of the St. Joseph Art League.

She exhibited in local exhibitions and fairs. In an art exhibit at a fair she exhibited both portraits and landscapes. One of her portraits was of a girl, Helen Ardery of St. Joseph, that showed a likeness that a critic said was “splendid” (St. Joseph Gazette, September 27, 1913). One of her landscapes, King Hill, had critics raving as having a “delicate touch and a sense of soft, well-blended tones in the picture, and the stolid Indian outlined against the blue gray sky gives an unusual finish to the scene” (St. Joseph Gazette, September 27, 1913).

She was considered an important figure in the local art community of St. Joseph, Missouri.