biography of Edgar Louis YAEGER (1904-1997)

Birth place: Detroit, MI

Addresses: Detroit 15, MI

Profession: Painter

Studied: Univ. Detroit; Univ. Michigan; Wayne Univ.; John P. Wicker; Andre L'Hote, Marcel Gromaire & O. Friesz in Paris (on Anna Scripps Whitcomb traveling scholarship, 1934).

Exhibited: Detroit Inst. Aer, 1932, 1939 (prizes); AIC, Carnegie Inst.; PAFA Ann., 1931, 1934; Corcoran Gal. biennial, 1930; CAA; MoMA; Angell Mus., Ann Arbor, MI (solo); Weyhe Gal., NY (solo).

Member: Scarab Club, Detroit; Wayne Univ. AC.

Work: Detroit Inst. Art; murals, Receiving Hospital, U.S. Naval Armory, Detroit; Ford Sch., Highland Park, MI; Grosse Pointe Pub. Lib.; City of Detroit Pub. Lighting Comm.; Univ. Michigan.

Comments: WPA muralist.

Sources: WW53; WW47.