PIERCE, Patricia Jobe

PIERCE, Patricia Jobe. American, b. 1943. Genres: Plays/Screenplays, Poetry, Art/Art history, Biography. Career: Freelance writer. Pierce Galleries, Inc., owner, 1968-, co-director, 2001-. Has served as an art consultant, historian, and appraiser; a trainer and manager of martial arts world champions; and a public speaker. Literary agent for the Kahlil Gibran estate, 1978-; agent for impressionist painters Pino de Angelico, Geoffrey Smith, E. Joseph Fontaine; estate representative for painters William S. Barrett, Anne Carleton, M.S. Pearson, C.A. Slade, C.F. Ryder, Louise Woodroofe, and J.W.S. Cox. Publications: "Tests" (avant-garde play), 1968; (with R.H. Kristiansen) John Joseph Enneking: American Impressionist Painter, 1972; The Ten: Frank W. Benson, Joseph R. DeCamp, Thomas W. Dewing, Childe Hassam, Willard L. Metcalf, Robert Reid, Edward Simmons, Edmund C. Tarbell, John H. Twachtman, J. Alden Weir, and William Merrit Chase (Who Replaced Twachtman, 1902), 1976; The Watercolored World of J.W.S. Cox, 1981; Edmund C. Tarbell and the Boston School of Painting, 1889-1980, 1980; Richard Earl Thompson, American Impressionist: A Prophetic Odyssey in Paint, 1982; Edward Henry Potthast: More than One Man (international art collection), 1991; (and ed. and director) American Impressionist (documentary film), 1991; The Ultimate Elvis: Elvis Presley Day by Day, 1994; (and photography) Love, 2000; Painters of the American Beach, 2000; Art Collecting & Investing, 2003. Author of ecological, art-related, and karate articles in magazines and newspapers. Address: 721 Main St, Hingham, MA 02043-3326, U.S.A. Online address: info@piercegalleries.com; www.piercegalleries.com