Background
Verner, Elizabeth O’Neill was born in 1883 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. Daughter of Henry and Mary Ann (Baker) O’Neill.
Verner, Elizabeth O’Neill was born in 1883 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. Daughter of Henry and Mary Ann (Baker) O’Neill.
Graduate Ursuline Academy, Columbia, South Carolina., 1902. Student Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1903-1904, Central School of Arts, London, 1930. Doctor of Hebrew Literature, U. North Carolina, 1947.
Doctor of Letters United States.C. 1947, College of Charleston, 1969.
; children—Elizabeth P., David Battle. Etchings and pastels of Charleston, pastels of Low Country, Negro men and women exhibited throughout United States. Worked out new method of drawing pastels on silk.
Fellow Castle Hill Art Center, Ipswich, Massachusetts, 1954. Collections of etchings in Boston Art Museum Atlanta High Museum, Metropolitan Museum, New York City, Library of Congress, Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston. One-man show Gibbes Gallery, 1963, Manila, Philippines, 1964, Spartanburg, South Carolina., 1970, Columbia, South Carolina., 1971, Sumter, South Carolina., 1971, Beaufort, South Carolina., 1972, Augusta, Georgia, 1975, Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1976, Atlanta, 1977.
Japanese series presented to International Museum, Kyoto, by governor of South Carolina., 1969. Active in campaigns to retain historic landmarks in Charleston, Savannah, Georgia, Fayetteville, North Carolina. Made pencil drawings of Williamsburg.
Appointed to make drawings of Mount Vernon for Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, drawings of New York for Rockefeller Center. Series of etchings of Savannah, 1928, Harvard Medical School, 1937, Japan, 1937. Drawings of Fayetteville, 1935, West Point, 1944, Princeton, 1950, University of Southern California, 1954.
Founder, Preservation Society of Charleston.
Married E. Pettigrew Verner, April. Children: Elizabeth P., David Battle.