Ethel Edwards

Education

In 1933 she entered Newcomb College in New Orleans where she studied with Xavier Gonzalez. She married Gonzales in 1936 in Alpine, Texas, where he had conducted a summer art colony for several years.

Career

They continued the summer art school until 1936 when Xavier took a leave of absence to live in France. In 1942 she completed a mural, Life on the Lake for the post office in Lake Providence, Louisiana. During the war years Edwards and Gonzales moved to New York City where they both taught at the Art Students League and she did fashion illustrations for Town & Country and Fortune magazines.

From 1942 to 1949, the couple lived in New York City and spent summers at Wellfleet, Massachusetts on Cape Cod.Edwards later taught at the Truro Center of the Arts.

Achievements

• Returning to Alpine with her husband in late 1937, Edwards won a national competition to paint a post office mural, Afternoon on a Texas Ranch, for Lampasas, Texas.