This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| | Born in Monrovia, CA in April 1889. Chess studied at the College of Fine Arts at USC and at UC Berkeley. She taught art at Monrovia High School from 1914. A spinster and lifelong resident of Monrovia, she died there on April 2, 1952. Working in a flat, illustrative style, she produced landscapes of the area around her home. Member: Pacific AA; Art Teachers Ass'n of Southern Calif. Exh: Calif. Art Club, 1929. | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
American Art Annual 1928; California Arts and Architecture list, 1932. | | Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here. |
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