Ortlip Family Art Trust

Aimée Eschner Ortlip – 1947

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The Ortlip Family Art Trust (OFAT) exists to preserve and share the work of an extraordinary family of artists who painted throughout the twentieth century. The inherited and donated Ortlip Family Art Collection (OFAC) comprises more than 150 works by H. Willard and Aimée E. Ortlip and two of their daughters, along with hundreds more unframed oils, charcoals, pastels, watercolors, and drawings.
This teaching collection is archived and exhibited in the campus library at Houghton University. This website provides a sampling from the comprehensive Ortlip catalog of several thousand artworks in the database the Trust continues to build and maintain.
The Trust-owned OFAC is separate from the University’s own significant collection of nearly a hundred commissioned or donated Ortlip works. The OFAC features the work of the four Ortlip painters who served the art faculty over five decades of the twentieth century: Aileen Ortlip Shea, her sister Marjorie Ortlip Stockin, and their parents, H. Willard and Aimée E. Ortlip.
The significant painting legacy of H. Willard and Aimée’s youngest child, Paul D. Ortlip is managed by Four Generations Art. The Four Generations Art Studio collaborates with the Ortlip Family Art Trust to preserve and promote the educational vision, influence, and charitable interests of their shared art heritage. 
Together these art holdings honor William Henry Ortlip (father of H. Willard); Henry McCarter, first cousin of William Henry’s wife, Emma McCarter Ortlip (H. Willard’s mother); and other related painters. These include L. Willard Ortlip, Jr., Eila Shea, Mary Krueger Ortlip, Janet Land Van der Eb, and contemporaries Laura Eschner and Robin Eschner. They celebrate, too, the many passionate non-professional artists in this extensive family.
The OFAC can be visited by appointment.  Please fill out the Contact Us form with your request.

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