Shirley Williamson was an American artist and educator, known for her seaside paintings and monotype prints.
10 Facts About Shirley Williamson
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Shirley Williamson was active between 1913 until 1940, in New York City, the San Francisco Bay Area and Carmel, California.
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At birth she was named Maud Shirley Perry and was born May 25,1875, in New York City, New York.
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Shirley Williamson attended classes at the Art Students League of New York studying with William Merritt Chase, and later with Arthur Wesley Dow.
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Shirley Williamson married physician Edward Lincoln Williamson in 1903, together they had a son.
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Between 1913 and 1926, the Shirley Williamson's lived in Berkeley and around the East Bay.
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Shirley Williamson's husband died by 1930, and the family moved two years later in 1932 to nearby 521 Addison Avenue in Palo Alto.
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Shirley Williamson was a member of the National Association of Women Painter's and Sculptors; the Pacific Art League ; and San Francisco Art Association.
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Shirley Williamson taught craft classes at Carmel Summer School of Art in 1924 and 1925, a dramatics class at Stanford University Summer School in 1930, and after 1940 she taught evening classes at Palo Alto High School.
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Shirley Williamson died on March 30,1944, in Palo Alto, and she is buried in Albany, New York.