biographie de Sybil Davis EMERSON (1892-1980)

Birth place: Worcester, MA

Addresses: Paris, France, 1932; NYC, 1940; State College, PA, 1947; McMinnville, OR,1959

Profession: Painter, sculptor, muralist, writer, educator

Studied: Ohio State Univ., B.A., B.Sc.; Paris; ASL, with Armin Hansen; Andre L'Hote; Académie Falguiere.

Exhibited: San Francisco AA, 1924, 1944, 1947; Calif. Industries Expo., San Diego, 1926; PAFA, 1932, 1940; Salons of Am., 1934; AIC, 1931,1935; WMAA, 1938-39; Butler AI, 1939-41, 1943-44, 1946; NGA, 1941; Albany Inst. Hist. & Art, 1943, 1947, 1949; SFMA, 1944; LACMA, 1945; Parkersburg, WV, 1946; Albany Pr. Club, 1949; Phila. Pr. Club, 1951; Calif. College Arts & Crafts, 1955.

Member: Eastern AA; Nat. Art Educ. Assn.; Com. on Art Educ.; United Am. Artists; Am. Artists Congress

Work: American Church, Paris.

Comments: Designer & executed the dossal for the Helen Eakin Eisenhower Mem. Chapel, Pennsylvania State Univ. Position: assoc. professor, art educ., Penn. State College, 1942-46. Lectures: Problems in Teaching Design. Author/illus.: Jacques at the Window, 1936; Pigeon House Inn, 1939; Design: A Creative Approach, 1953.

Sources: WW59; WW47. More recently, see Hughes, Artists in California, 169; Falk, Exh. Record Series.