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An example of work by Louise Everett Nimmo
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Biography from AskART:
| Born in Des Moines, Iowa, she was the daughter of celebrated artist Mary Everett and was an impressionist cactus still life and landscape painter.
At age eleven, she was taken to Europe to study the Old Masters and become familiar with the European art scene. She attended Grinnell College in Iowa and did her first serious painting as a student of Frederick Furzman at Saugatuack, Michigan. She later studied with Charles Hawthorne at Provincetown.
In 1919, she moved with her family to California and studied at the Otis Art Institute for three and a half years. She took both painting and sculpture, the latter course being taught by Julia Bracken Wendt. She received what has been described as the one and only diploma from the Institute, a pencil design on an old envelope whimsically created by Edward Vysekal and Roscoe Shrader.
She sold enough of her work to finance further sculpture study at the Academie Julian and the Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts in Fontainebleau, France. She also studied at the studio of Denis Gelin.
When she returned to California, she married Rae Nimmo an attorney and became active in the local art scenes. She found that her love of painting superceded that of sculpture. A visit to Tucson, Arizona inspired her love for the desert, and this subject became her specialty. |
Biography from AskART:
| | Born in Des Moines, IA on April 9, 1899. Louise Everett was educated at Grinnell College. After studying with Charles Hawthorne in Provincetown, she settled in Los Angeles in 1919. She continued to study there with Julia Bracken Wendt and at the Chouinard and Otis Art Institutes. During 1925-26 she further studied in Paris at Académie Julian and Fontainebleau School of Arts. Returning to Los Angeles, she became active in the local art scene and in 1932 wed attorney Ray Nimmo. Early in her career she switched from sculpture to painting. An Impressionist, her work includes desert landscapes and still lifes of cacti. Mrs. Nimmo died in Ojai, CA on April 6, 1959. Exh: Calif. Art Club, 1920-51; Painters & Sculptors of LA, 1920-30; Laguna Beach AA, 1923-46; Paris Salon, 1926; West Coast Arts, 1927; Pacific SW Expo (Long Beach), 1928 (silver medal); Hollywood Woman’s Club, 1928; LACMA, 1929; Women Painters of the West (LA), 1931-35; Olympiad, LACMA, 1932; Beverly Hills Woman's Club, 1932; Friday Morning Club (LA), 1934; Calif. State Fair, 1936; GGIE, 1939; Pasadena Art Inst., 1950; Chamber of Commerce (Santa Paula), 1950; Calif Art Club, 1951. In: Opportunity School (Des Moines); St Andrews Episcopal Church (Ojai); Calif. Art Club (mural); Beverly Hills Women's Club. | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
City Directory; American Art Annual 1925-33; Who's Who in American Art 1936-62; Who's Who in California 1942; Women Artists in America (Collins & Opitz); Women Artists of the American West; Artists of the American West (Doris Dawdy); Death record; Ventura Star Free Press, 4-7-1959 (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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Louise Nimmo is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
The California Art Club
Taos Pre 1940
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