Edith Flack Ackley Wengenroth (6 June 1887 – 28 November 1970) was an American writer and doll maker and designer.
Bio
She was born in
Greenport, New York. She made her first dolls for her daughter.
When her daughter, Telka, was older she did water color paintings that were portraits of Ackley's dolls.
Ackley went on to make dolls as a source of income, and had her own doll shop.
Ackley's dolls have been shown in the
Wenham Museum and the
Children's Museum of Cleveland
The Children's Museum of Cleveland (CMC) was established in 1981 and is located in the Midtown neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio.
History
Originally, it was located in the University Circle area of Cleveland
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Personal life
Her first husband, Floyd Ackley, was a jewelry designer. Her second husband was the artist
Stow Wengenroth
Stow Wengenroth (1906–1978) was an American artist and lithographer, born in 1906 in Brooklyn, New York. Wengenroth was once called "America's greatest living artist working in black and white" by the American realist painter Andrew Wyeth, and ...
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whom she married in 1936.
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American women writers
Dollmakers
1887 births
1970 deaths
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