Edwards, Ethel, 1914-1999.

Painter, illustrator, teacher; New York, N.Y., and Provincetown and Wellfleet, Mass. Born 1914. Died 1999.

Ethel Edwards was born in New Orleans in 1914 and entered Newcomb College there in 1933 on scholarship. In September 1935, her teacher for life drawing, watercolor, and portrait drawing was painter Xavier Gonzalez, whom she married the following summer. After studying in Paris in 1937-38, she returned to Alpine, Texas, where in 1939 she won the Forty-Eight State Mural Competition for her post office mural in Lampasas, Texas.

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