Cora Van Epps

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  • Cora
  • Adelaide
  • Van Epps
  • Van Eps Vaneps Vanepps VanEppe
  • Van Epps
  • partner: possibly Myra White
  • n/a
  • April 2, 1858
  • Peoria, Illinois
  • May 19, 1947
  • Los Angeles, California
  • 1857-?:  Peoria, Illinois

    1908-1947: La Jolla (Park), California

    1915-1947: also Los Angeles, California
  • Peoria, Illinois

    La Jolla Park, California

    Los Angeles, California

     
  • China Painter, Painter-Oil, Watercolorist
  • 1891: student in Geneva, New York
  • later 1890s-?: throughout country, especially California
  • Array
  • Hughes, Edan. Artists in California, 1786-1940. St. Gaudens, Maurine  ed. Emerging from the Shadows: A Survey of Women Artists Working in California, 1860-1960, 2016.
  • Peoria Society of Allied Arts; charter member

    Peoria Art League; assistant secretary
  • teacher
  • Parents: Henry Roosevelt (?-1915) and Elizabeth L. (Buck) Van Epps; he was an inventor and manufacturer of wire and iron goods, established the Peoria Novelty Wire Works Company

    won first premium in amateur division for collection of greenhouse, hot house and bedding plants in pots at 1883 State Fair