biography of Lesley Leslie E. JACKSON (1867-1958)

Birth place: Rochester, MN

Death place: Amsterdam, NY

Addresses: Wash., DC; Amsterdam, NY, 1955

Profession: Painter, etcher

Studied: Corcoran Sch. A.; Knox Col., and with Edmund C. Messer, Charles Hawthorne, Henry Snell; ASL, Wash., DC.

Exhibited: Soc. of Wash. Artists, 1899-1932; Soc. Indp. A.; Min. PS & G Soc. of Wash., DC; Gr. Wash. Indp. Exh., 1935; Ntl. Acad. Wmn. P&S; NY WCC; Wash. Soc. Et. Awards: Second Corcoran prize, Wash. WC Cl., 1905; New Haven Paint & Clay Cl., 1924

Member: Soc. of Wash. Artists; AWCS; Wash. AC; AFA; Wash. SE.; Wash. WCC; NYWCC

Work: NMAA; Smithsonian Inst.; Speed Mem. Mus., Louisville, Ky.

Comments: Her full name was Elizabeth Lesley Jackson. Specialty: watercolor.

Sources: WW53; WW47; McMahan, Artists of Washington, D.C.