With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
Edmund Marion Ashe
Education/Curation, Illustration
1867 – 1941
- Biography/Description of Work
A native of Staten Island, Ashe studied at the Metropolitan Art School and at the Art Students League with Charles Vanderhoof and John Stimson. He began his career as an illustrator, and drew for magazines such as Colliers, Harper’s Monthly, Scribner’s, and Munsey’s. Ashe also painted ‘Gibson Girl’ watercolors and provided illustrations for such books as “In Camp with a Tin Soldier” by John Kendrick Bangs (1892), and Richard Harding Davis’s works, “Her First Appearance” (1901), “Ransom’s Folly” (1902), and “The Bar Sinister” (1903). By 1905, Ashe had a country home on Wolfpit Avenue, north of Murray Street, in Norwalk, in addition to an apartment overlooking the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. He taught in a rented studio in Manhattan in the mid-1910s, and later in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Institute of Technology. He retired in 1940 and moved to South Carolina. His son Edmund Marion Ashe Jr. also became an illustrator.
- Sources view
- Uconn database, http://www.fada.com/browse_by_artist.html?gallery_no=10&artist=6027&bio=1, http://www.pulpartists.com/Ashe.html, http://www.daviddikefineart.com/artists/182-ashe-edmund.html, http://americangallery.wordpress.com/2010/11/03/edmund-marion-ashe-1867-1941/, http://comicbookdb.com/creator.php?ID=13942, http://www.askart.com/askart/a/edmund_marion_ashe/edmund_marion_ashe.aspx Edmund Ashe Jr. Art Showing - New York Times - 1929-10-13, Edmund Ashe Jr. Wedding Announcement - New York Times - 1941-6-15, Edmund M. Ashe Wedding Announcement - New York Times - 1941-6-15
- Associated Resource(s)
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