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Birth
1890 (Omaha, Nebraska)
Death
1949 (Los Angeles, California)
Lived/Active
United States
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Elvera Catherine Hustead was born in Omaha, NE on Aug. 9, 1890. Hustead studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and Los Angeles Art Institute. She was the author of Colorology in 1929 and wrote articles for magazines. By 1937 she was a resident of San Francisco. At the time of her death in Los Angeles on Feb. 5, 1949, she was the wife of James Simons and a beauty salon owner.
Member: National Sculpture Society.
Exh: Mills College (Oakland), 1944; California School of Fine Arts (San Francisco), 1945, 1946.
| Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
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