biographie de Martha Oathout AYRES (1890-?)

Birth place: Elkader, Iowa

Addresses: Came from Colorado to Los Angeles, CA, in the 1920s and was still there as of 1959

Profession: Sculptor, painter, teacher, writer, lecturer

Studied: Carleton College, B.A., 1911; AIC, 1915; Lorado Taft; Charles Mulligan; Ganiere.

Exhibited: ASL, Chicago, 1914 (first prize); Los Angeles County Fair, 1915; South Dakota State Fair, 1916 (first prize); Wyoming State Fair, 1918 (first prize); solo exhs., Denver, CO; Pomona, Long Beach and Los Angeles, CA.

Member: California AC; Los Angeles AA; Art Section, Women's Club; Fell., Royal Soc. A., London, England; Prof. Artists Roost.

Work: Mem., Carleton College, Northfield, MN; statues at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale, CA; busts at several California High Schools: Emerson H.S., Pomona; Glendale H.S.; Glendale and Inglewood H.S., Inglewood; also, statues and bas-relief in many colleges and private homes.

Comments: Positions: teacher of sculpture, Art Guild Academy and Denver Jr. H.S.; Modeling prehistoric animals, Gilbert Mus., Los Angeles H.S.

Sources: WW59; WW40; Hughes, Artists in California.; Ness & Orwig, Iowa Artists of the First Hundred Years, 20.

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