The Old Print Shop

Ferol Sibley Warthen

1890-1986

Ferol Katherine Sibley Warthen (1890-1986) was born on May 22, 1890 in Aberdeen, South Dakota.  She excelled in art and received a full scholarship to the Columbia Art School in Ohio.  In New York at the art Students League She studied with William Merritt Chase and Kenneth Hayes Miller.  Later in her life she studied with Blanche Lazzell and Karl Knaths.  It is with Lazzell she learned the white-line technique of print making.  She had a solo exhibition of her work at the national Museum of American Art in 1973.

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