biography of Edwin M. DAWES (1872-1945)

Birth place: Boone, IA

Death place: Los Angeles, CA

Addresses: Lovelock NV; Los Angeles, CA

Profession: Landscape painter

Studied: Studied under Will Lathrop, Hew Hope, PA for a short time, but mostly self-taught

Exhibited: AIC; Yale Univ.; Art Inst., St. Paul, NM; Art Mus., Los Angeles; Art Inst., Milwaukee, WI; Minnesota State Art Soc., 1905, 1909 (prize), 1913 (gold), 1914 (prize); St. Paul Inst. Art, 1915 (medal); Kanst Gallery, Los Angeles, 1915, 1918.

Member: California Art Club.

Work: State Art Soc., MN; Public Library, Owatonna, MN; Minneapolis Inst.; Ackerman Gal., Los Angeles; Pub. Lib., Los Angeles; Santa Fe Railway Coll.

Comments: Cf. Donald Teague.

Sources: WW40; Ness & Orwig, Iowa Artists of the First Hundred Years, 59-60; Hughes, Artists of California, 137.