biography of Edmund M. ASHE (1867-1941)

Birth place: Staten Island, NY

Death place: Mt. Pleasant, SC

Addresses: Westport, CT, 1905-on

Profession: Painter, illustrator, teacher

Studied: ASL

Exhibited: AIC, 1910; Armory Show, NYC, 1913; S.Indp.A.; Corcoran Gal., 1928

Member: NYWCC; Pittsburgh AA; Soc. Illus.; Silvermine Guild, Norwalk (founder); Westport AA

Comments: Began as journalistic illustrator working as White House artist-correspodent for Leslie's Weekly, New York Tribune, New York World during the administrations of William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt (1896-1904). He taught in Newark (NJ), Philadelphia, and at the Carnegie Inst. (Prof. of Painting and Decoration). Marlor gives a birth date of 1871, and a death date of 1942.

Sources: Community of Artists, 11, 112; Marlor, S.Indp.A.