Biography from AskART:
| A mural and map-making specialist who also did illustration and fine art painting, Mary Atwood was born in Chicago, Illinois.
She
was a pupil of Robert-Fleury and Jean Francois Millet at the Academie
Julian in Paris, and in the 1930s moved to Los Angeles where she lived
until her death in Glendale. She earned a reputation for the many
decorative maps she did of Southern California, and her maps including
Death Valley are in numerous public buildings.
She was also an active member of the California Watercolor Society.
In her travels through the Southwest, she was in Arizona and completed a mural commission for the Phoenix Rotary Club.
Sources:
Edan Hughes, Artists in California, 1786-1940
Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art |
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