 Frances Alice Keefer is primarily known as Frances Alice Keffer
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born in Des Moines, IA on Jan. 6, 1881. Keffer studied with Frank Brangwyn, Alexander Robinson, Ossip Linde, and at the Pratt Institute. She was a resident of her native city until about 1920 and then moved to San Diego, CA. She taught at an art school there for several years, and appears to have divided her time between San Diego and Hillsdale, NJ until the early 1940s. A spinster, she died in San Diego on March 21, 1953. She was the sister of artist Florence Hale.
Exh: Des Moines Women's Club, 1912 (award); NAD, 1919; San Diego Art Guild, 1940-42; Nat'l Ass'n of Women Painters & Sculptors. In: Des Moines Public Schools.
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Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
AAA 1919-33; WWAA 1936-53; San Diego Union, 3-23-1953 (obit). | | 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. |
Biography from Crocker Art Museum Store:
| | Painter. Born in Des Moines, IA on Jan. 6, 1881. Keffer studied with Frank Brangwyn, Alexander Robinson, Ossip Linde, and at the Pratt Institute. She was a resident of her native city until about 1920 and then moved to San Diego, CA. She taught at an art school there for several years, and appears to have divided her time between San Diego and Hillsdale, NJ until the early 1940s. A spinster, she died in San Diego on March 21, 1953. She was the sister of artist Florence Hale. Exh: Des Moines Women's Club, 1912 (award); NAD, 1919; San Diego Art Guild, 1940-42; Natl Assn of Women Painters & Sculptors. In: Des Moines Public Schools. AAA 1919-33; WWAA 1936-53; San Diego Union, 3-23-1953 (obit). | | 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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