biography of Eleanor McGavic EDWARDS (1906-1980)

Birth place: St. Louis, MO

Death place: Woodstock, NY

Addresses: Mt. Pleasant, IA; Columbia, MO; Maywood, IL, c.1926-29; NYC, 1929-33; Woodstock, NY, 1933-80

Profession: Painter

Studied: Iowa Wesleyan Col.; Stephens Col., Columbia, MO

Exhibited: Int. Water Color Exhib., AIC, 1938; BM 1939; Saint Louis City Art Mus.; CPLH; Denver AM; MFA, Houston, TX; CI; Inst. of Arts, Minneapolis, MN; Fine Arts Soc. San Diego; Colorado Springs FAC; Univ. Illinois; Morton Gal.; Contemporary Art Gal.; Seven Arts Cl.; Woodstock Art Gal.; Bard Col.; Stephens Col., 1949; All-Missouri Exhib., 1951; Iowa Wesleyan Col.; W&J. Sloane Gal., NY; Sculptors Gal., Woodstock; Guild Gal., Woodstock.

Member: Woodstock AA; Woodstock Fnd. (sec.); Woodstock Guild Craftsmen.

Comments: Preferred medium: watercolor. Primarily an American regionalist landscape painter, she also executed abstract works. Daughter of Anna Wallbank McGavic and Hamilton Stafford McGavic. Married to Emmett Edwards (see entry) in 1926.

Sources: WW59; WW47; add. info courtesy of Scott F. Sibley, Hyattsville, MD; Woodstock AA