Edna Maschgan - Artist Info

About Edna Maschgan

Name variants

Edna Wolff Henner, Edna Wolff
  • Biography

    Edna Maschgan was a WPA (Works Progress Administration) artist who exhibited in 1940 at the National WPA Conference of Artists. She studied mural painting in Mexico under Diego Rivera in the late 1920s, and she studied and exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago. She was a member and exhibitor of The Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts of Chicago.

    Additional exhibition venues were the Annual Harriet Bitterley Award Show, the Art Institute of Chicago 71st Annual Exhibition of Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, the Illinois State Museum Exhibition and the Associated American Artist Gallery.

    Source:
    Treadway - Toomey Galleries 20th Century Art and Design Auction catalogue Lot #644, page...

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