biography of Eva Ellen DEAN (1871-1954)

Birth place: Storm Lake, Iowa

Death place: Los Angeles, CA

Addresses: Sioux City; Los Angeles, CA

Profession: Painter, teacher, writer, educator, illustrator

Studied: Univ. Akron, B.S.; AIC; Chicago Acad. of FA; School of Ilustration, Chicago; ASL; & with A. T. Van Lear, Roberto Rascovich; John H. Vanderpoel, Frank DuMond, Henry Reuterdahl.

Exhibited: AWCS, 1938; California WC Soc.; AIC; Arizona Mus. Art; Santa Cruz Art Lg.; Oakland Art Gal.; Los Angeles Mus. Art; Women Painters of the West; Soc. for Sanity in Art (Los Angeles, Chicago, 1941, San Francisco, 1940, 1945); PBC. Awards: California Fed. Artists, 1936; Women Painters of the West, 1943.

Member: Soc. for Sanity in Art; Pen & Brush Club of NY; California Water Color Club; Lg. of Am. Pen Women; Women Painters of West.

Comments: Author/illustrator: In Peanut Land," juvenile book.

Sources: WW53; WW47; Ness & Orwig, Iowa Artists of the First Hundred Years, 60; Hughes, Artists of California, 138."