Agnes Wood - Artist Info

About Agnes Wood

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    Art teacher to high school girls at Atascadero, 1916-17. “The high school girls, under direction of Miss Agnes Wood, took charge of the advertising poster work of the band concert. They cut figures in uniforms from catalogues and magazines and pasted them on white card board in various combinations with similar figures of papas and mamas and babies whose hearts were plainly set on hearing the concert. There were Mutt and Jeff, the Duffs, Father, the ‘Smatter Pop Kids,’ and all the other celebrities of the newspaper world – all on their ways to the concert and proud to pay their fifteen cents like others, regardless of the number of passes distributed among the members of the staff. Uncle Dudley, Lady Bountiful and Skin-nay all helped call Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, ATASCADERO (including CAMP ROBERTS, CARRIZA/O PLAINS, PASO ROBLES, SAN MIGUEL, SANTA MARGARITA, SHANDON, TEMPLETON, ETC.), ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY BEFORE 1960 (Publications in [Southern] California Art, vol. 13, no. III), Cambria, Ca.: Dustin Publications, 2017...

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