Beatrice Edna MacPherson Edgerly - Artist Info

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Beatrice Edna Edgerly MacPherson
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    Beatrice Edgerly MacPherson (1898-1973)

    Born in Washington D.C. in 1898, her father was Webster Edgerly ( author Edmond Shaftsbury ), her mother was Edna Reid Edgerly and her sister was Gladys ( sculptor ). She was educated at Gunston Hall, Corcoron Gallery School ( at eleven years of age the youngest to have been enrolled ), Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Trenton School of Industrial Arts. She spent three summers in Europe while quite young making sketches at every opportunity. Later travels took her back to Europe, the British Isles Hawaii, Japan and Korea.

    The family moved to Hopewell, N.J. then to Trenton N.J. She married John Havard Macpherson in 1922. They built a home and...

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