Margaret Dobson
Margaret Anna Dobson (November 9, 1888 – January 20, 1981) was an American painter, etcher, illustrator, and muralist born in Baltimore, Maryland.
Also recorded as Margaret Anna Dobson
Margaret Dobson
- Name
- Margaret Anna Dobson
- Born
- 9 November 1888
- Birthplace
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Died
- 20 January 1981
- Place of death
- Los Angeles, California
- Education
- Maryland Institute Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Fontainebleau School of Art (Paris) Syracuse University
- Field
- Painting, Muralist, Printmaking
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- painter · etcher · printmaker · muralist · artist
- Languages
- English
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Margaret Anna Dobson (November 9, 1888 – January 20, 1981) was an American painter, etcher, illustrator, and muralist born in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Margaret Dobson (1888–1981) was an artist, etcher and muralist, among other activities, of American nationality. The artist was born in Baltimore and died in Los Angeles. Margaret Dobson was educated at Maryland Institute College of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Syracuse University. Languages used include English.
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• Name — Margaret Anna Dobson • Born — 9 November 1888 • Birthplace — Baltimore, Maryland • Died — 20 January 1981 • Place of death — Los Angeles, California • Education — Maryland Institute Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Fontainebleau School of Art (Paris) Syracuse University • Field — Painting, Muralist, Printmaking
Education
Education
She studied at the Maryland Institute, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Palace School of Art in Paris and Syracuse University. At various times she studied with Cecilia Beaux, Emil Carlsen, Daniel Garber, Violet Oakley, and Robert Vonnoh.
Career
Career
While studying in Paris she painted frescos at the Fontainebleau Palace and the Hospital of St. Vincent de Paul, also in Fontainebleau. During the Great Depression Bessemer painted a post office mural in Kaufman, Texas, entitled Driving the Steers, which was later "covered over" or "destroyed".
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1888
Margaret Dobson born at Baltimore.
1981
Margaret Dobson died at Los Angeles.
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Margaret Dobson is recorded as having studied at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Syracuse University and Maryland Institute College of Art.
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- 1.Margaret A. Dobsom 1888 - 1881. Edan Milton Hughes.
- 2.Petteys, Chris, “Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women ratites born before 1900”, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1985
- 3.Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986
- 4.Park, Marlene and Gerald E. Markowitz, Democratic vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal, Temple University Press, Philadelphia 1984
- 5.Harwood, Buie, Decorating Texas: decorative Painting in the Lone Star State from the 1850s to the 1950s, Texas Christian University Press, Fort Worth, 1993 p/104
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Margaret Dobson studied at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Syracuse University and Maryland Institute College of Art.
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