biography of Edith V. COWLES (1874-?)

Birth place: Farmington, CT

Profession: Painter, illustrator, craftsperson, teacher

Studied: John T. Niemeyer; Académie Julian, Paris with Laforge; Bruneau

Exhibited: Salons of Am.

Work: stained glass windows for St. Michael's Church, Brooklyn, NY; series of twenty-eight watercolor drawings of giotto frescoes, Life of St. Francis," in the Upper Church at Assisi (Italy), pub. Dutton (New York) and Dent (London)."

Comments: Illustrator: House of Seven Gables,"' by Hawthorne; "Old Virgina," by Thomas Nelson Page; "Friendship", by Emerson. Sister of Genevieve, Maud, and Mildred.

Sources: WW33; Petteys, Dictionary of Women Artists.

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