biographie de Florence Elizabeth ATKINS (1876-1946)

Birth place: Pleasant Hill, LA

Death place: San Francisco, CA

Addresses: San Francisco, CA, from 1911

Profession: Painter, sculptor, illustrator

Studied: Newcomb Col., Tulane Univ.; Ellsworth and William Woodward; Hans Hofmann, in Munich; Mark Hopkins Inst., San Fran.

Exhibited: San F. AA; PAFA, 1921, 1932 (animal sculpture); Oakland Art Gallery, 1922

Member: SSAL; New Orleans AA

Comments: Specialty: studies of American birds. Worked as clerk at Western Union Telegraph Company.

Sources: WW47; Falk, PAFA, vol. 3; Hughes, Artists of California.