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Patricia Jobe Pierce is a free-lance writer-historian/art dealer/certified AAA art appraiser/public speaker/photographer; President, Pierce Galleries, Inc. (1968-) 721 Main Street, Hingham, MA 02043 (winter) and 5 South Water St., Nantucket, MA 02554 (summer) Telephone: (508) 228-1789 (Nantucket); (781) 749-6023 (Hingham); cell (773)236-0488 e-mail: info@piercegalleries.com Website: www.piercegalleries.com

Education: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Boston University, School of Fine and Applied Arts (1965); extension courses, University of Connecticut (1966); Harvard University (1990-1991)

Books authored: John Joseph Enneking, American Impressionist (privately printed, 1972) The Ten American Painters (NH: Rumford Press, 1976) Edmund C. Tarbell & The Boston School of Painting, 1880-1980 (privately printed 1980). The Watercolored World of J.W.S. Cox (privately printed 1981) Richard Earl Thompson, American Impressionist (San Francisco: Richard-James Pub., 1982)    The Transitional Seasons of Richard Earl Thompson (Thompson Gallery, San Francisco, CA:      September 1982) Introduction, Jane Peterson, An American Artist (Boston: J.J Joseph, 1982) The Ultimate Elvis (N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 1994) hard and soft cover Love, photographs & text (Ronkonkoma, NY: Fine Art Books 2000), hard and soft cover Pino, Contemporary Painter (Endnote, 2002) Robert Hamada, One with Nature (Introduction, Kauai Museum, 2001) Henry Wo-Yue Kee (Introduction, 2003) Art Collecting & Investing (Privately printed 2003) Edward Henry Potthast ~ More Than One Man (privately printed, 2006)

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Videos: “American Impressionist Richard Earl Thompson,” 30 minutes, color, stereo hi-fi sound, (writer-director), Finley Holiday Films, Whittier, California 1991

Articles & Poetry: “American Artist Rediscovered, W. S. Barrett, 1854-1927,” Antique News (Nov. 15, 1971)1 “Are You a Collector or Investor?” Antiques News (Dec. 15, 1971) 1 “How to Know & Buy Art, 5 part series, Antiques News (Jan-April, 1972) “Chauncey F. Ryder, 1868-1949, American Expressionist, Antiques News (Jan. 12, 1972) 3 “Jane Peterson,…A Sleeper Wakes Up,” Antiques News (August 11, 1972) 1 “John Joseph Enneking, Amer. Artist Makes a Comeback,” Antiques News (April 14, 1972) 1 “The American Silversmith Craftsman,” Antiques News (June 16, 1972) 24 “Charles Courtney Curran, American Painter of the Nostalgic Past,” National Antiques Review, (May 1973) 35-36 “John Joseph Enneking, Painter of N. E.,” National Antique Review (June 1974) 18-19 “Samuel Rose-A Portrait Painter with Purpose,” National Antique Review (May 1976) 22-22 “Living Painters Trained in Boston,” (Boston: State Street Bank, 1976) 1-16 “Classical Realism, the Other Twentieth Century,” The Arts Weekly (1977) “William S. Barrett and His Mistress,” American Antiques (April 1978) 30-33 “Richard Earl Thompson…,” Antique and Collectors Mart (December 1979) 18 “Elephants: An African Dilemma of Global Concern,” Animals (December 1980) 11-17 “Africa’s Big Cats,” Animals (October 1981) 12-15 “The Fusing of Traditions and Aesthetics,” Southwest Art (October 1982) 132-139 “Noted Painter, Lawrence Kupferman…,” Antiques & Arts Weekly (October 22, 1982) 27 “The Seasonal Transitions of Richard Earl Thompson,” (R.W. Norton Art Gallery & Museum,       Shreveport, Louisiana, October 1982) “The Master’s Touch,” (San Francisco: August 1983) “A Ghost in the Machine,” La Galleria Fine Arts, Oklahoma City, OK, March 1984 “An American Impressionist,” (JAMA: March 1985) 22, 29 “Richard Earl Thompson,” (JAMA, American and Yugoslavian editions, April 1986) “Ruth,” Great Poems of Today (Calif.: World of Poetry Press 1987) 76 “Edward Henry Potthast, More Than One Man,” International Fine Arts Collector (October       1990) 36-47 “An American Impressionist, Richard Earl Thompson,” International Fine Arts Collector (October 1990) 82-85 “Edmund Charles Tarbell,” Guild of Boston Artists (Boston: June 1989) “Sculptor Kahlil Gibran Is Back on the Island,” The Inquirer & Mirror (Nantucket, MA:       August 8, 1991) 8B “Giovanni deCunto Featured at the Gallery,” The Nantucket Beacon (Nantucket, MA:      August 7, 1991) 2 “Entrepreneur Shenners Egan,” The Nantucket Beacon (Nantucket, MA: Sept. 4, 1991) “Italian Artist to be featured,” The Sun Transcript (Boston: October 30, 1991) 3A “Italian-American Painter Makes an Impact,” Post-Gazette (Boston: May 15,1992) 8 “The Leather District Goes ‘Pop’…,” The Improper Bostonian (Boston: May 27, 1992) 14 “Everlasting,” National Library of Poetry (1995) “J.W.S. Cox’s Nantucket Paintings,” The Mariner Beacon (Nantucket, June 25, 1998) “A John James Audubon Masterpiece,” The Mariner Beacon (Nantucket, July 1998) “Mother,” (poem), The Sun, Myrtle Beach, SC (5/15/98) “M.H. Hurlimann Armstrong To Show Impressionistic Landscapes At Barney’s,” Antiques & The Arts Weekly (May 21, 1999) 14 “Painters of the American Beach,” The Inquirer & Mirror (Nantucket, 8/6/98) 4C “Mentors & Their Muse,” The Inquirer & Mirror (Nantucket, 8/19/99) “The Disadvantages of Buying Art at Auction (9/2/99) and The Hudson River School (8/5/99) and “A Golden Art Opportunity,” (7/29/99) and “Icons of American Art,” (8/12/99) in       The Inquirer & Mirror (Nantucket, MA) “The Pitfalls of Online Auctions,” The Islander Magazine (November-December 1999) “Art Investing & Collecting in the 21st-Century,” Fine Art (June, 2000) 33-36 “The Meanings of Love Through the Ages,” Fine Art (Spring 2000), pp.70-73 “Renown Painter Bernard Corey Dies,” Maine Antique Digest, May 2000, p. 4-A “Centuries of Artistic Influences,” Home & Garden, Nantucket, Summer 2000, pp. 92-99 “Along the Sea & Shore,” (8 articles), The Inquirer & Mirror, Nantucket, 6/29/00-8/31/00 “Robert Hamada ~ One with Nature,” The Garden Island, Kauai, Hawaii, May 2001 The Inner World of Henry Wo Yue-Kee, “Painting the Translucent Essence of Nature,” (Artland Press, VA December 2003) “Muse & Refuge, A Brief History of Art on Nantucket,” Nantucket Home & Garden, summer 2004, pps. 88-98 “Fools for Art, Don’t Get Conned by Forgers & Tricksters,” Fine Art Connoisseur, p. 22, July/ August 2006 “A Thorough Bill of Sale is Your Best Defense,” Fine Art Connoisseur, September/Oct. 2006 “Paintings of the Beach,” “Marine Paintings Chronicle Life at Sea,” “The Floral Paintings of   Kathy Anderson,” Only magazine, Nantucket, 2014

Live Radio and Television Interviews: “Talk of the Town,” WTVF-TV, Nashville, TN (CBS, 8/8/94); “Midday News, WKRN-TV (ABC, Nashville, 8/9/94); “Country News,” Nashville (8/9/94); NBC with Aron Kelly, Nashville (8/9/94); “Morning Show,” WNEW-FM, NY (8/10/99); “Lee Kirk Show,” WWWE-AM, Cleveland, OH (8/10/94); “Lunch with Teddy & Karlan,” WWTN-AM, Nashville (8/11/94); “Wake Up Call,” WMC-TV-NBC, Memphis, TN (8/11/94); “Memphis in the Morning,” WMC-AM, Memphis, TN (8/11/94); “Ron & Steve Show,” WMC-FM, Memphis, TN (8/11/94); WOGY-AM, with Ronda Cloud, Memphis (8/10/94); WKNO-FM with Joel Hurd, Memphis (8/10/94); “Noon News,” WELO-AM, Tupelo, MS (8/12/94); “Noon News,” WTVA-TV-NBC, Tupelo, MS (8/12/94); “Today in New York,” WNBC-TV with Matt Lauer (8/16/94); NBC Radio Network, NYC (8/16/94); “Morning Meeting,” KMOX-AM (8/17/94); “Showbiz Today,” Cable News Network, NY (8/17/94); “R&R with Roger Rose,” America’s Talking, NY (8/17/94)

Brochures: “Master Robert Hamada ~ One with Nature,” Kauai Museum of Art, Kauai, HI (May 2001) “Kahlil Gibran, Sculptor,” William Penn Memorial Museum in Pennsylvania, 1980 “Living Painters Trained in Boston,” State Street Bank and Trust, Boston, MA, 1976, 1980 “Fifty Eight Fine Boston Area Artists – Past & Present,” State Street Bank and Trust, Boston, MA, April 1978 “William S. Barrett and The Maine Coast,” El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas, 1978 “William S. Barrett, Paintings of the Sea and Shore,” Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, N.Y., 1979 “American Paintings, Illustrations and Drawings,” “Selected American Paintings,” “William S. Barrett, 1854-1927” (volumes i, ii), “Anne Carleton, 1878-1968, views of Artists, Beaches, the Depression, Ogunquit…,” “Anne Carleton Beaches,” “Marguerite S.       Pearson, 1898-1978,” “The Realism of Roy Thompsen,” “Recent Realism of Roy Thompsen,” “Chauncey F. Ryder,” for Pierce Galleries, Inc.

Biographical Essays: For the American National Biography, Oxford University Press, 1998: Elvis A. Presley (singer, King of rock’n’roll); Stevie Ray Vaughan (musician); Jerry Garcia (musician); Buddy Holly (musician); Reginald Marsh (artist); Kahlil Gibran (poet/artist); Natalie Wood (actress); Edward Simmons (artist); Willard Leroy Metcalf (artist); Jane Peterson (artist); Marguerite S. Pearson (artist); Chauncey F. Ryder (artist); Moses Soyer (artist); John Joseph Enneking (artist); Joseph Rodefer DeCamp (artist) Catalogue Raisonné Compilations: The life work of impressionist painter Edmund Charles Tarbell (1865-1938); marine painter William S. Barrett (1854-1927); expressionist Anne Carleton (1878-1968); impressionist Marguerite S. Pearson (1898-1978); expressionist Chauncey F. Ryder, N.A. (1868-1949) and surrealist Samuel Rose (1941-)

References: “This Madonna Should Blush,” Forbes (March 24, 1997) 203 “Elvis, Live in Concert,” radio interview, Drew Marketing aired August 17,1997 (London) “Landscape Painting,” American Art Special, Art & Auction (October 1997) 126 “For Art Historian Patricia Jobe Pierce, Life’s A Beach,” Antiques & Arts Weekly (November      7, 1997) 131 “Stalking the Edge with Pat Pierce,” Mary Stack, Hingham Times, 2:14, April 14, 1995, p4 “Patricia Jobe Pierce (SFA 65),” Bostonia (March 31, 1995) 67 “Elvis: Sale of Collectibles Lures Buyers,” Los Angeles Times, June 20, 1994, A3, A19 “Hinghamite pens ultimate biography of Elvis,” Hingham Journal & Mariner (8/4/94) 5 “The King of Elvis Books, Author traces days, nights of legend,” The Boston Herald (August     16, 1994) 41 “Forever Elvis,” The Arts, Time (October 1994) 73 “The Ultimate Elvis,” Music/Biography, Fireside Books (August 1994) “Steppin’ Out,” The Memphis Flyer’s Guide, Aug. 11-12, 1994, p. 17 calls The Ultimate Elvis “the most scholarly” book written on Elvis

Agent: Literary agent for the works of Lebanese poet/artist Kahlil Gibran (1976-2000); art agent for watercolorist Francis Golden (b. 1911-2008), impressionists John Kilroy (b. 1952-) and Geoffrey Smith (b. 1950); super-realist Zhen Huan Lu (b.1950-)

Artist Estate Representative: William S. Barrett (1854-1927); Marguerite S. Pearson (1898-1978); Anne Carleton (1978-1968); J.W.S. Cox (1911-1981); Caleb Arnold Slade (1882-1961), Chauncey F. Ryder (1968-1949) and others.

Member: Appraisers Association of America (1974-present, certified member); National Writer’s Union (1989-present); Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980-; People for the American Way (Citation for Excellence); International Platform Committee; Smithsonian Institution; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Civil Rights Action Committee, Afro American Center, Boston (1975-); International Society of Poets; Advisory Board, New England, Archives of American Art (1980-1988); American Classical Realism Association (member-donor, 1985-); Fuller Memorial Art Gallery (member-donor); board member, Humanitarian Committee, Hingham, 2001-2006; Association of Historians of American Art (2006)

Listed: Who’s Who in American Art, 1976-; Outstanding Young Women of America, 1974; International Registry of Profiles, 1979;Who’s Who in Writing, 1990-; Who’s Who in the East, 1981-; International Book of Honor, 1979; Dictionary of International Biography, 1989-; Who’s Who of Professional & Business Women, 1989-; International Authors and Writers Who’s Who, 11th ed., 1987, 1989-1993, 1999; Biography International, 1987; Who’s Who in the World of Women 1990-; Men & Women of Achievement & Distinction, 1988; Who’s Who in Karate; The World Who’s Who of Women, 1984-1992; Two Thousand Notable American Women, 1990; Who’s Who in America (1984-); Contemporary Authors (1995); Who’s Who of American Women, (1999-2000); 2000 Outstanding Writers of the 21st Century (2000) & more Awards: “Genesis,” Honorable Mention, World of Poetry, 1986; “Wings in the Wind,” Golden Poet’s Award, World of Poetry, 1987; “Whales Rescue Man,” Golden Poet’s Award, World of Poetry, 1989; President George Bush Patriot’s Medal, 1989; Presidential Advisory Board Honor of Distinction, 1990 and Medal for Patriotism, 1994; Presidential Legion of Honor, 1995; Silver medal, World of Poetry, 1990; American Biographical Institute’s Woman of the Year, 1990; Award for Poetry, International Society of Poets, 1994-1995; Editor’s Choice Award, The National Library of Poetry, 1996; World Peace Award for essay “Peace & Solidarity and The First Amendment,” International Museum of Peace & Solidarity, Republic of Uzbekistan, Commonwealth of Independent States (USSR), 1993 and others

Work in Progress: Environmental book They Who Touch the Earth (photographs and text); Painters of the American Beach; Volume 2, Art Collecting & Investing

Statistics: Born in Seattle (WA) the daughter of Ruth H. Baten and Leonard Carl Jobe. Raised in Los Angeles (CA) and Greenwich (CT). Black belt Tae Kwon Do, manager of world karate champions Billy Blanks of Tae Bo (1981-1985) and Serog Bejanian (1987-1990). Married to Marco Apollo Pierce (1994 -) ~ two children Matthew (1972) and Christine (1968)