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Edythe Laws BIOGRAPHY
1922 Portland, Maine - 1984. Known for: Landscape and marine painting.
Edythe A. Laws was born in Portland, Maine March 10, 1922. She lived in south. Harpswell, Maine, and Brunswick, Maine, and was a protege of Andrew Wyeth. Laws attended Stuart School in Boston and... Read full biography
Edythe A. Laws was born in Portland, Maine March 10, 1922. She lived in south. Harpswell, Maine, and Brunswick, Maine, and was a protege of Andrew Wyeth. Laws attended Stuart School in Boston and graduated from Pratt Institute in New York. During her lifetime, she had forty-eight one-woman shows... Read full biography
Edythe A. Laws was born in Portland, Maine March 10, 1922. She lived in south. Harpswell, Maine, and Brunswick, Maine, and was a protege of Andrew Wyeth. Laws attended Stuart School in Boston and graduated from Pratt Institute in New York. During her lifetime, she had forty-eight one-woman shows beginning 1945. She also showed her work at the National Academy of Design in New York, the Grenada Public Library in the British West Indies, the University Student Union in Cortland, New York, and... Read full biography
Edythe A. Laws was born in Portland, Maine March 10, 1922. She lived in south. Harpswell, Maine, and Brunswick, Maine, and was a protege of Andrew Wyeth. Laws attended Stuart School in Boston and graduated from Pratt Institute in New York. During her lifetime, she had forty-eight one-woman shows beginning 1945. She also showed her work at the National Academy of Design in New York, the Grenada Public Library in the British West Indies, the University Student Union in Cortland, New York, and Wood Art Gallery in Montpelier,Vermont. In 1985 her art was being shown at Bowdoin College in Brunswick Maine, and this was her last exhibit before she died in January, 1984. Laws also wrote a children's book named Clem Clam, which was published. Awards... Read full biography
Edythe A. Laws was born in Portland, Maine March 10, 1922. She lived in south. Harpswell, Maine, and Brunswick, Maine, and was a protege of Andrew Wyeth. Laws attended Stuart School in Boston and graduated from Pratt Institute in New York. During her lifetime, she had forty-eight one-woman shows beginning 1945. She also showed her work at the National Academy of Design in New York, the Grenada Public Library in the British West Indies, the University Student Union in Cortland, New York, and Wood Art Gallery in Montpelier,Vermont. In 1985 her art was being shown at Bowdoin College in Brunswick Maine, and this was her last exhibit before she died in January, 1984. Laws also wrote a children's book named Clem Clam, which was published. Awards included recognition from the Maine State House in 1961,1965 and 1... Read full biography
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Edythe A. Laws was born in Portland, Maine March 10, 1922. She lived in south
Harpswell, Maine, and Brunswick, Maine, and was a protege of Andrew Wyeth.
Laws attended Stuart School in Boston and graduated from Pratt Institute in New York. During her lifetime, she had forty-eight one-woman shows beginning 1945. She also showed her work at the National Academy of Design in New York, the Grenada Public Library in the British West Indies, the University Student Union in Cortland, New York, and Wood Art Gallery in Montpelier,Vermont. In 1985 her art was being shown at Bowdoin College in Brunswick Maine, and this was her last exhibit before she died in January, 1984. Laws also wrote a children's book named Clem Clam, which was published.
Awards included recognition from the Maine State House in 1961,1965 and 1968, and a "Popular Award Paintings " from the Mark Twain International Society. She also won a State Of Maine Garden Award.
Written and submitted August 2004 by Elizabeth J. Alexander, paternal niece of the artist.