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An example of work by Anita Austin Jacobs Wainwright
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| | Born in Greenwich, CT on Dec. 2, 1889. Anita Jacobs studied at Rye (NY) Seminary where her father was an art teacher. She further studied in NYC at the Cooper Union, ASL, and School of Applied Design for Women. For five years in the 1920s she lived in Palo Alto and in 1939 returned to California and had homes in Berkeley and Carmel with her husband artist Samuel Wainwright. Her forte was floral studies. She died in Berkeley on July 5, 1968. Exh: Carmel AA; Palo Alto Art Club, 1923. | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
SF Chronicle, 7-7-1968 (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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