Margaret Dobson
Margaret Anna Dobson (November 9, 1888 – January 20, 1981) was an American painter, etcher, illustrator, and muralist born in Baltimore, Maryland. Education She studied at the Maryland Institute, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Palace School of Art in Paris and Syracuse University. At various times she studied with Cecilia Beaux, Emil Carlsen, Daniel Garber, Violet Oakley, and Robert Vonnoh. Career While studying in Paris she painted frescos at the Fontainebleau Palace and the Hospital of St. Vincent de Paul, also in Fontainebleau. During the Great Depression Bessemer painted a post office mural in Kaufman, Texas, entitled Driving the Steers, which was later "covered over" or "destroyed". References 1888 births 1981 deaths American muralists American women illustrators American illustrators American etchers Maryland Institute College of Art alumni Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alumni Syracuse University alumni Section of Painting and Sculpture artists American women painters American women printmakers 20th-century American painters Artists from Baltimore Painters from Maryland 20th-century American women artists American women muralists 20th-century American printmakers Women etchers