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Elsie Motz Lowdon
Elsie Motz Lowdon (1883–1960) was an American painter of portrait miniatures. Life Born in Waco, Texas, Lowden spent her youth there, studying with Eleanor T. Wragg at Baylor University, before moving to New York City, where she undertook further lessons with Lucia Fairchild Fuller and Elsie Dodge Pattee. Her works were exhibited in that city, in Atlanta, and in Washington, D.C. as well as in her native state, where she was included in the Texas Centennial Exposition of 1936; she also showed her work at a variety of other venues, presenting a portrait at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in 1915. Known particularly for portraiture, she depicted members of such prominent Houston families as the Blaffers and Hobbys, as well as noted novelist Ellen Glasgow. Lowdon also produced a variety of interior and genre painting, genre scenes. She died in Fort Worth, Texas, Fort Worth. Lowdon was a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, the Souther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perdita
Perdita (Italian for "loss", from Latin for "lost woman"), may refer to: People *Perdita Barran, English chemist *Perdita Buchan (born 1940), Anglo-American author *Perdita Felicien (born 1980), Canadian track athlete *Perdita Huston (1936–2001), American women's rights activist *Perdita Stevens (born 1966), British mathematician and computer scientist *Perdita Weeks (born 1985), English actress Science *Perdita (genus), ''Perdita'' (genus), a genus of North American native bees *Perdita (moon), a minor satellite of the planet Uranus Fiction *Perdita (The Winter's Tale), Perdita (''The Winter's Tale''), the heroine of Shakespeare's play ''The Winter's Tale'' *Perdita Boyte, a character from the 1936 novel ''And Berry Came Too'' by Dornford Yates *Perdita Hyde-Sinclair, a character from the British soap opera ''Emmerdale'' *Perdita Nitt, aka Agnes Nitt, character in the ''Witches (Discworld)#Agnes Nitt, Witches'' subset of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series *Perdita Willoughb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
