Biografie von Marietta Minnigerode ANDREWS (1869-1931)

Birth place: Richmond, VA

Death place: Seminary Hills, near Alexandria, VA

Addresses: Active in Wash., DC, from 1890; Seminary Hills, VA

Profession: Painter, illustrator, instructor, author, writer

Studied: Corcoran Sch. A, with Eliphalet Fraser Andrews (whom she married in 1895); William M. Chase; Luigi Chialiva, in Paris; Ernest Lieberman, Munich; NYC.

Exhibited: Soc. of Wash. Artists; A. Cl. of Wash.; Wash. WC Cl.; CGA (gold medal, 1899).

Member: Soc. of Wash. Artists; A. Cl. of Wash. (charter); Wash. WC Cl. (charter and vice pres. from 1897-98).

Work: stained glass windows, St Paul's Chuch, Steubenville, Ohio; also, in colls. at Am. Soc. Psychical Res., NYC; Univ. Va., Charlottesville; Concordia Lutheran Church, George Washington Univ., Wash. DC; CGA; College of William and Mary

Comments: She designed the Doyle memorial stained glass windows at St. Paul's Church in Steubenville, OH (executed by Tiffany's Studios). Author/illustrator: The Memoirs of a Poor Relation," "My Studio Window" (pub. Dutton), and other numerous literary works, including pageants and poems.

Sources: more recently, see McMahan, Artists of Washington, DC.