Papers of Ethel May Wickes, 1917-1978 (bulk 1937-1940).

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Papers of Ethel May Wickes, 1917-1978 (bulk 1937-1940).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122510094

The collection contains correspondence, business and other miscellaneous papers and numerous drawings and paintings. The correspondence is both addressed to, and written by, Wickes and makes up almost half of the total collection. The business and miscellaneous papers include a great deal of biographical information on Wickes, including lists of her paintings and exhibitions, photographs, a copy of her will and several notes and documents written about her life. The artwork contained in the collection includes twenty-nine pieces by Wickes, which includes pastel drawings and both oil and watercolor paintings, fifteen watercolors by her friend, and fellow artist, Liliane D. Wells, and a drawing by John Hoffman. Issues addressed within the collection as a whole include the life and career of Wickes as well as pictorial representations of California geese and wildflowers. Correspondents include Bertha Ast, Willis Linn Jepson, Clarence E. Wells and Liliane D. Wells.

135 pieces.1 box.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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SNAC Resource ID: 6742078

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Wells, Clarence E.

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Jepson, Willis Linn, 1867-1946

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Ast, Bertha

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Hoffman, John, fl. 1928.

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Wells, Liliane D.

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Wickes, Ethel May, 1872-1940

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Ethel May Wickes (1872-1940) was an artist known for her watercolor paintings of California wildflowers. She began to paint at the age of seventeen, studying in Paris under several prominent artists, and had her first exhibition the next year at the William Morris Gallery in New York. Her early popularity was won with "Goose Shepherd", a work that began her lifelong habit of painting and drawing geese. In 1914 she began painting California wildflowers, subject matter that she tried to render bot...