Biografie von Cora Draper KIMBERLY (1876-?)

Birth place: St. Louis, MO

Death place: Wash., DC

Addresses: Wash., DC, active 1904-61

Profession: Painter

Studied: Wash. Univ.; BMFA; AIC; Chicago A. Acad.; & with Hawthorne, Vanderpoel, Messer, Farnsworth.

Exhibited: AIC; BMFA; Boston WC Cl.; CGA; PMG; Gr. Wash. Indp. Exh., 1935; Soc. Wash. A., 1936-38; Wash. WC Cl.; CAM. Award: prize, Soc. Wash. A.

Member: Wash. A. Lg.; Soc. Wash. A.; Wash. WC Club; Wash. A. Cl.

Work: Interiors, White House, Arlington House, Dumbarton House, Mt. Vernon.

Comments: She was commissioned to do a number of paintings of White House interiors during the early years of the F.D. Roosevelt administration, which were shown around the country.

Sources: WW59; WW47; McMahan, Artists of Washington, D.C.