Dickon eames biography of williams

Betty Waldo Parish is known for her Ashcan-School inspired views of New York City, Provincetown, and the Adirondacks.  Parish was born in Cologne, Germany, to an American family.  They came to the United States prior to World War I; they first lived in Evanston, Illinois, and then moved to New York City, where Parish's first art teacher was Anne Goldthwaite.  As a young woman Parish attended the Spokane Arts Center (where she studied lithography with Robert O.

Engard), the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, and the Academie Julien, Paris.  In New York Parish attended Columbia University, the New School for Social Research, and the Art Students League where she worked with Kenneth Hayes Miller, John Sloan, Reginald Marsh, and Eugene Speicher.  She was on the Printmaking Project of Works Progress Administration, in New York.

In the s Parish was married briefly to Edward S. Leonard, an illustrator, and then to Whitney Darrow, Jr., the New York