Pearl Jeanette Van Sciver, born Pearl Jeannette Aiman, was a Philadelphia based artist, mostly of oil paintings of landscapes and floral still lifes often inspired by flowers from her own garden and greenhouse.
Background
She married Lloyd Van Sciver, the son of notable Camden, New Jersey based furniture maker, J.B. Van Sciver. Pearl was born in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia in 1896, the only child of parents Arnold Aiman and Emma G. Rorer. Her father was a roofer and her mother had inherited property and money from her wealthy and heirless uncle, Clinton Rorer.
Here she grew up in a large stone house which still stands today on East Willow Grove Avenue.
Her next door neighbors were the family of her mother"s sister, the Fallows.
Career
As a child, Pearl attended the Wyndmoor Public School, which is now the Wyndmoor Montessori School. Later, she became a graduate of Steven"s School of Germantown, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Design for Women, now known as the Moore College of Art and Design.
Membership
The Woodmere Art Museum in Chestnut Hill awards the Pearl & Lloyd Van Sciver Prize to the best work of art by a member of Woodmere.