Biography from AskART:
| Born in Ohio, Ella Robinson Estill was a floral and botanic painter who
was active in her birth place of Columbus, Ohio; Oracle and Tucson,
Arizona; and Los Angeles. Her specialty was watercolors, and for
the Smithsonian Institution, she did numerous depictions of cacti and
desert flowers from 18 years of residence in Arizona.
She was married to John Wilmott Estill.
In 1921, she and her husband settled in Los Angeles, California where she exhibited with the Friday Morning Club.
Sources:
Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki Kovinick, An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West
Edan Hughes, Artists in California, 1786-1940
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Biography from AskART:
| | Born in Columbus, OH on Nov. 12, 1860. For 18 years Ella Howard lived in Arizona making studies of the desert flora for the Smithsonian Institution. She and her husband, John W. Estill, settled in Los Angeles in 1921. Mrs. Estill died there on Sept. 12, 1941. Exh: Friday Morning Club (LA), 1925; Painters & Sculptors of LA, 1926. | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
City Directory; Southern California Artists (Nancy Moure); Women Artists of the American West; Los Angeles Times, 3-1-1925; Death record; Arizona Daily Star (Tucson), 9-14-1941 (obituary). | | 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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