biography of Nell Brooker MAYHEW (1876-1940)

Birth place: Astoria, IL

Death place: Highland Park, CA

Addresses: Los Angeles, CA

Profession: Landscape painter, etcher, muralist

Studied: Univ. IL, with N.A. Wells; J. Johansen, at AIC.

Exhibited: AIC, 1892; MacDowell Cl., Barker Brothers, both Los Angeles; Alaska-Yukon-Pac. Expo., Seattle, 1909 (med.); S. Indp. A., 1926

Member: Laguna Beach AA; Calif. A. Cl.; PM of Los Angeles

Work: State Lib., Sacramento; Oreg. State Mus., Salem; mural, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.; mural, Mem. Lib., Ashton, Ill.

Comments: Teaching: Chouinard Sch. of Art; College of Fine Arts, USC.

Sources: WW40; Hughes, Artists in California, 363.