Pattie Richardson East was born in Oklahoma and moved to Fort
Worth as a young girl. She attended Texas Christian University,
the Broadmoor Art Academy, and the Art Institute of Chicago. She
had art training with Xavier Gonzalez, Harry Anthony De Young,
Birger Sandzen, Joseph Fleck, and Jose Arpa. She operated an art
studio in Fort Worth and exhibited competitively over five
decades. Her first exhibition was in 1917 at the State Fair of
Texas. Her art career, teaching, exhibiting, and painting
resulted in a large body of fine still life, character study,
and landscape paintings. She was a member of the Southern States
Art League, Dallas Art Association, Fort Worth Allied Artists,
Fort Worth Artist Guild, and the Texas Fine Arts Association.
She traveled extensively and painted scenes of California,
Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Mexico, and Texas. She painted,
"Oil Refinery" for the PWAP which was hung in Handley High in
Fort Worth. Her work is held in the National Collection of Fine
Arts, Smithsonian Institution.