EDNA MARRETT WILCOCKS (1887-1969)

Birth place: Portland, ME

Death place: Altadena, CA

Addresses: Arcadia & Altadena, CA

Profession: Portrait painter, teacher, writer

Studied: Vassar College; BMFA Sch.; ASL; Frank Benson; Edmund Tarbell; Philip Hale; Pratt; Harrison

Exhibited: Soc. Indep. Artists, 1925; Calif. WCS, 1928-35; Pasadena SA, 1930-34; Women Painters of the West, 1933-55; Griffith Park, Los Angeles; Pasadena AA; Santa Barbara; Denver.

Member: Women Painters of the West; Nat. Soc. Arts & Letters, Pasadena Chapt. (chmn., art committee).

Work: Court House, Wilkes-Barre, PA; Bowdoin College, Burnswick, ME; Court House, Edmonton, Alberta

Comments: Teaching: Flintridge Sch. for Girls, Pasadena, 1934; Anoakia Sch., Arcadia, CA, 1936-56.

Sources: WW59; WW47.

This biography is drawn from the "Who Was Who in American Art" , the reference book on the cultural life in the United States.