Daisy Marguerite Hughes

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Daisy Marguerite Hughes (1883–1968) was an American painter and lithographer.

About[]

A native of Los Angeles, California and born in 1883.[1] Hughes studied with George Elmer Browne, Ralph Johonnot, Louise Elizabeth Garden MacLeod, Rudolph Schaeffer, and Channel Pickering Townsley. Groups to which she belonged included the , the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, the American Federation of Arts, the California Art Club, the , and the Provincetown Art Association.[1] She also studied at the Art Students League of New York for a time in the 1920s. She exhibited locally in Los Angeles and taught art in the public school system. A collection of her papers is in the Archives of American Art.[2]

Her painting “Wrecking Old Chinatown” (1951) was featured in the exhibition, Something Revealed: California Women Artists Emerge, 1860-1960 at Pasadena Museum of History in 2019.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Jules Heller; Nancy G. Heller (19 December 2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-63882-5.
  2. ^ "Daisy Marguerite Hughes sketchbooks and papers, 1928-ca. 1968 | Archives of American Art". Aaa.si.edu. 2016-12-14. Retrieved 2017-02-03.
  3. ^ "Extraordinary California Women Artists Working from 1860 to 1960". Hyperallergic. 2019-02-20. Retrieved 2019-02-27.


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