biografía de Narcissa Chisholm OWEN (1831-1911)

Lugar de nacimiento: Webbers Falls, OK

Lugar de defunción: Lynchburg, VA

Direcciones: Lynchburg, VA, 1853-73; Wash., DC, active 1895-1900

Profesión: Painter, teacher

Estudios: Evansville (IN) College; Arkansas.

Exposiciones: St. Louis Expo, 1904 (medal).

Obra: Univ. Virginia Mus., Charlottesville (portrait of Thomas Jefferson & his descendants, which won a medal at the St. Louis Expo. in 1904); Oklahoma State Hist. Soc.

Comentarios: Daughter of a Cherokee chief from Oklahoma, Owen moved with her son to Wash., DC when he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1907. Teacheing: music and art, Cherokee Female Seminary, 1880-84.

Fuentes: McMahan, Artists of Washington, DC; Trenton, ed. Independent Spirits, 246-65.