Collection Information
Size: 0.3 Linear feet
Summary: Eight sketchbooks containing pencil drawings from France and Massachusetts; a French art magazine supplement (1928); and an exhibition catalog in French (1928).
Hughes, Daisy Marguerite, 1882 or 3-1968
Painter, Printmaker
Size: 0.3 Linear feet
Summary: Eight sketchbooks containing pencil drawings from France and Massachusetts; a French art magazine supplement (1928); and an exhibition catalog in French (1928).
Painter, lithographer; Los Angeles, California. A life-long resident of Los Angeles, Hughes studied art at the Art Students League in New York in the mid 1920s. She exhibited locally and taught art in the public schools.
Donated 1995 by art historian Nancy Moure. She acquired the papers from Michael Tierney of La Crescenta, Calif. who purchased them at a flea market.
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Daisy Marguerite Hughes sketchbooks and papers, 1928-ca. 1968. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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