biography of Valerie SWENSON (1907-?)

Birth place: Kansas City, MO

Addresses: Shandaken, NY

Profession: Painter

Studied: Kansas City AI; Univ. Kansas, B.F.A.

Exhibited: Woodstock Gld. Artists & Craftsmen; exhibs. in Chicago, Philadelphia and New York; AMNH (solo); Argent Gal., NY; Albany Inst. Hist. & Art.

Member: Woodstock Gld. Artists & Craftsmen.

Comments: Author/illus.: A Child's Book of Trees," 1953; "A Child's Book of Reptiles and Amphibians," 1954; "A Child's Book of Stones and Minerals," 1955; "Bees and Wasps," 1959; "The Year," and illustrations for many nature books and magazines."