Edna Zyl Modie
Edna Zyl Modie (April 14, 1886 – November 14, 1981) was an American painter and founding member of the .
Biography[]
Modie was born to Charles C. and Lillian Janette Modie. Her family moved from Walnut Creek in 1887 to various places in Southern California, and settling in Los Angeles around 1891. Modie graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1904, and from Los Angeles School of Art and Design in 1907. She also taught at the California School of Artistic Whistling in Los Angeles, California. Modie previously studied under Agnes Woodward, the founder of the school.[1]
References[]
- ^ St. Gaudens, Maurine. Emerging from the shadows : a survey of women artists working in California, 1860-1960. Atglen, PA. pp. 750–751. ISBN 9780764348617. OCLC 935240202.
Categories:
- 1886 births
- 1981 deaths
- People from Walnut Creek, California
- Los Angeles High School alumni
- Painters from California
- 20th-century American painters
- 20th-century American women artists
- American women painters
- American art educators
- American painter, 19th-century birth stubs