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| Born in Storm Lake, Iowa, to Joseph and Augusta Robinson Dean, Eva Dean
became a painter known for floral studies, figures, landscapes and
missions. She graduated in 1890 from Storm Lake high school, and
then attended the University of Akron in Ohio, earning a B.S.
degree. From 1900 to 1901, she attended the Chicago School of
Illustration, and the next two years was at the Chicago Academy of Fine
Arts. She also studied privately with Robert Rascovich. For
six years, 1899 to 1905, she was an art teacher in Sioux City, Iowa.
In 1905, she moved to New York City, and for the next 13 years took
classes at the Art Students League, studied privately with Alexander T.
Van Laer, wrote and illustrated children's books including In Peanut Land, worked as an interior decorator, taught art in evening schools, and took English classes at Columbia University.
She returned to Iowa to care for her parents and worked as bank
advertising manager in Sioux City in 1920, and between 1917 and 1921 as
an editorial writer for the Sioux City Tribune.
In 1924, she moved to California, settling in Los Angeles.
She remained in California except for the years 1928 to 1930, when she
taught in Tucson, Arizona at the University of Arizona. She also
returned regularly to Sioux City. Between 1927 and 1940, her
painting was primarily western themes including San Xavier Mission, The Tucson Desert; and Old Mexican Potter.
She was a member of the California Watercolor Society,
the League of American Pen Women, and Women Painters of the West.
Exhibitions included the Arizona State Fair, Santa Cruz Art League,
Artists of the Southwest, and Women Painters of the West.
Source:
Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick, An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West
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