biography of Augusta Arnold MACY (?-1909)

Birth place: Admunston, NY

Death place: Des Moines, IA

Addresses: Moved to Iowa in 1857

Profession: Painter

Studied: Chicago and with Gerald Nollen in Pella, IA.

Comments: Art teacher, Oskaloosa; established art dept., Drake Univ., 1881; teacher, Drake Univ., 1881-90. Mother of Harriet Macy (see entry).

Sources: Ness & Orwig, Iowa Artists of the First Hundred Years, 134.