Discipline: Visual Art

Ethel Edwards

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1957
Ethel Edwards (1914–1999) was an American painter, collage artist, illustrator, and muralist born in Opelousas, Louisiana. During World War II, Edwards and her husband Xavier Gonzales moved to New York City where they both taught at the Art Students League and she did fashion illustrations for Town & Country and Fortune magazines. From 1942 to 1949, the couple lived in New York City and spent summers at Wellfleet, Massachusetts on Cape Cod. Edwards later taught at the Truro Center of the Arts. The Xavier Gonzalez and Ethel Edwards Travel Grant given by The Art Students League of New York was first awarded in 2002; it provides stipends to artists for travel in Spain. Edwards was an instructor at the Art Students League.

Studios

Cheney

Ethel Edwards worked in the Cheney studio.

Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…

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