Sallie Curb Arnold

Sallie Curb Arnold
Born
Sallie McAllister Curb

(1880-09-13)September 13, 1880
Perry County, Alabama
Died23 April 1982(1982-04-23) (aged 101)[1]
Annandale, Virginia

Sallie McAllister Curb Arnold (September 12, 1880 – April 23, 1982) was an American artist and educator from Alabama. A graduate of Judson College, she was the wife of a Baptist minister and taught on the faculty of Livingston Normal College (now the University of West Alabama). Her work is in the collections of multiple American art museums.

Life and career

Sallie McAllister Curb was born in Perry County, Alabama on September 12, 1880. Her father, John T. Curb,[2] was a Confederate veteran from Brush Creek,[3] and worked as a commissioner of Perry County.[4] She grew up in Marion, Alabama.[5] She graduated from Judson College in 1899,[5][6] and was posthumously honored as an outstanding alumna in 1985.[6] In 1902 she joined the teaching staff of Marin Academy in the Greensboro Separate School District in Greensboro, Alabama,[7] and by 1903 she was working as an assistant instructor of art at her alma mater, Judson College.[4] She then worked as an art teacher at the Fourth District Agricultural School in Sylacauga, Alabama.[8] In 1905 she joined the art faculty of Livingston Normal College (now the University of West Alabama).[9]

Sallie married Herman Ross Arnold in 1907.[10] Her husband was a Baptist minister, and the couple settled initially in McKinley, Alabama where he was employed as a pastor at the time.[11] He then ministered at a church in Athens, Alabama for two and a half years before relocating with Sallie to Lafayette, Alabama to take a position as pastor in 1913. In 1918 he left that post to become pastor of the Baptist Church in Greenville, Alabama where he was still serving in 1931.[12] He spent the last thirteen years of his career pastoring a church in Jacksonville, Alabama, and died in 1953. Sally and Herman had three children: Margaret, Ross, and Wyatt.[13]

Sallie was artistically active in Jacksonville, Alabama,[14] where she lived until 1972 when she moved to Annandale, Virginia .[5] In 1980, in honor of her 100th birthday, Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibited her painting Nasturtiums;[6] a work which remains a part of the museum's collection.[14] Her work is also part of the collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art.[15]

Sallie Curb Arnold died in Annandale, Virginia on April 23, 1982[5] at the age of 101.[6][16] Her great granddaughter is the artist Margaret Griffith.[17]

References

  1. ^ "Arnold, Sallie Curb, 1880-1982 - Social Networks and Archival Context". snaccooperative.org.
  2. ^ "R. F. D. Notes". The Marion Times-Standard. January 4, 1906. p. 8.
  3. ^ "Alabama, Census of Confederate Veterans, 1907, 1921, 1927," database with images, FamilySearch (17 March 2018), John Thomas Curb, 1907; citing Marion, Perry, Alabama, United States, citing Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery; FHL microfilm 1,533,729.
  4. ^ a b "Snap Shots". The Marion Times-Standard. April 30, 1903. p. 8.
  5. ^ a b c d "Area Obituaries: Arnold". The Anniston Star. April 27, 1982. p. 12.
  6. ^ a b c d "Judson Alumna Honored". The Birmingham News. May 1, 1985. p. 5G.
  7. ^ "At the Meeting of the Trustees of the Greensboro Separate School District". Greensboro Watchman. September 11, 1902. p. 3.
  8. ^ "Sylacauga". Our Mountain Home. July 15, 1903. p. 2.
  9. ^ "Social Column". The Marion Democrat. September 6, 1905. p. 16.
  10. ^ "Curb Arnold". The Marion Times-Standard. July 19, 1907. p. 8.
  11. ^ "Marriage of Rev. Ross Arnold". The Thomaston Post. July 18, 1907. p. 5.
  12. ^ "Baptist Pastor". Greenville Advocate. March 11, 1931. p. 1.
  13. ^ "Last Rites Are Held For Minister". The Marion Times-Standard. October 8, 1953. p. 1.
  14. ^ a b "Sallie Curb Arnold". Smithsonian American Art Museum.
  15. ^ "Portrait of a Young Girl". Birmingham Museum of Art. Gift of Margaret Curb Arnold Griffith, daughter of Sallie McAllister Curb Arnold, 2005.89. 1906. Retrieved 20 October 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  16. ^ "Virginia, Death Certificates, 1912-1987," database with images, (FamilySearch : 16 August 2019), Sallie Curb Arnold, 23 Apr 1982; from "Virginia, Marriage Records, 1700-1850," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com: 2012); citing Annandale, Fairfax, Virginia, United States, Virginia Department of Health, Richmond.
  17. ^ "Art & Life with Margaret Griffith". Voyage LA. January 21, 2019.
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