Eda Dixon

Artist Details

• First Name Eda
• Middle Name Hurd
• Maiden Name Lord
• Alternate Name(s) Eda Lord Young Eda H. Lord Dixon Eda H. Lord  
• Surname Dixon
• Spouse’s Full Name Laurence Belmont Dixon (1870-1953) (electrical engineer; later bookbinder, horticulturist): married July 26, 1909 in Evanston
• Previous Spouse(s) William Sanborn Young (1873-1964) (member, Chicago Board of Trade): married October 1893, divorced 1906
• Names and Birth Years of Children Robert L. Dixon (1911-?) Richard B. Dixon (1912-?)
• Birth Date November 30, 1876
• Birth Place Evanston, Illinois
• Death Date February 14, 1926
• Death Place Riverside, California
• Residence(s) 1876-1906: Evanston, Illinois
  
  1906-1909: London, England
  
  1909-1910: Evanston, Illinois
  
  1910-1925: Riverside, California
  
  1925-1926: Del Mar, California
• Active In Evanston, Illinois
  
  London, England
  
  Riverside, California
• Categories Metalworker
• Training student of James Herbert Winn in Chicago
  student of Alexander Fisher in London
  
• Exhibitions History twice in 1907: Arts and Crafts Society of Detroit
  
  December 8-22, 1908: 7th Annual Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Original Designs for Decorations and Examples of Art Crafts of Distinctive Meri, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois:  hand mirror, silver, ivory, enamel, glass
  
  1909: Architectural Exhibition of the Detroit Achitecgtural Club and the Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit, Michigan: hand mirror, silver, ivory, enamel, glass; box, silver, enamel; finger bowl, silver, enamel; bowl, silver, plique-a-jour enamel
  
  1910: Detroit Arts and Crafts Society, Detroit, Michigan: more than 50 pieces of jewelry, enamel and silver  [just Eda and Laurence]
  
  1910: Ninth Annual Exhibition of Original Designs for Decorations and Examples of Art Crafts having Distinct Artistic Merit, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: 14 items, including 2 finger bowls, silver, enamel
  
  April 3-30, 1912: Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit: opera and calling bags, sleeve links, scarf pins, boxes, brooches
  
  November, 1912: Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit, Michigan: jewelry
  
  January 1, 1915-January 1, 1917: Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Diego, California: hand mirror, silver, ivory, enamel, glass
  
  October 12-November 15, 1916: Annual Exhibition of Applied Art and Original Designs for Decorations, the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois:
  
  1917: Annual Exhibition of Applied Art and Original Designs for Decorations, the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois:
  
  1917: Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit, Michigan
  
  October 1919: Annual Exhibition of Applied Art and Original Designs for Decorations, the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: two rings; pair of earrings, platinum, sapphires
  
  October 1920: Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit, Michigan: covered box, silver, enamel, crystal
  
  1922-1923: Exhibition of American Handicrafts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC: chalice, silver and enamel; vanity box, ivory, silver, cloissone
  
  March 1-10, 1927: Tricennial Exhibition of the Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, Massachusetts: oval box, hand mirror
  
  1927: Boston Society of Arts and Crafts Gallery, New York, New York
  
  January 1927: Arts and Crafts by local artists, junior college, Riverside, California: jewelry
• Publications Evon, Darcy L. Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry: 1890-1940, Schiffer Publishing, 2013. Harvey, Medill Higgins and Lori Zabar, “Eda Lord Dixon Rediscovered” in The Magazine ANTIQUES, September 11, 2018.
• Memberships October 1906: joined Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit, Michigan
• Awards 19??: named Craftsman member in jewelry, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston
  
  1912: named Master member, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston
  
  February 1916: bronze medal (with Laurence), Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, Massachusetts: jewelry
• Archive(s) sketch albums and photo albums at Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
• Other Occupation(s) in Riverside, California, managed orange groves
• Website(s) September 2018 article by Medill Higgins Harvey and Lori Zabar for The Magazine ANTIQUES
  
  page on Wikipedia
• Biography She was from an illustrious Evanston's family, she was the granddaughter of Harvey B. Hurd. Her mother, Eda Hurd Lord, was a successful businesswomen, one of the first in Evanston, and is responsible for platting the city’s land and developing the residential spaces. Her father was George S. Lord, a wholesale druggist for Lord, Owen & Co., a company started by his father Thomas Lord. The Lords moved to Evanston in 1857.
  
  Siblings:
  
  Harvey Hurd Lord (1878-1920)
  
  Thomas Lord (1880-1951)
  
  Kate Kimball Lord (1882-1908)
  
  Robert Owen Lord      (1886-1968)
  
  Margaret Lord Dixon (1892-1979)
  
  George Willis Lord (1894-1997)