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4 unusual facts about Pearl Van Sciver


Pearl Van Sciver

Some of her paintings are included in several permanent collections at the Allentown Art Museum, Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Ogontz Junior College (Penn State Abington) and the University of Pennsylvania.

Some of her landscapes or street scenes of are local areas around Philadelphia such as New Hope and Lancaster, while others are of some of the many places she traveled too, such as Rothenburg, Germany, Gloucester, England or Kennebunkport, Maine.

Pearl was born in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia in 1896, the only child of parents Arnold Aiman and Emma G. Rorer.

Sometime before Pearl turned 4 years old, her parents moved just outside the city to Wyndmoor, in Springfield Township, Montgomery County.



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