Alice Righter Edmiston

Alice Laura Righter, A. R. Edmiston, A. L. Edmiston, was born in Monroe, Wisconsin, in 1874, and died in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1962, at the age of 89. She moved with her family to Lincoln when she was four years old, where she attended the University of Nebraska. She was a student of Sarah W. Moore's, one year after the fine arts department had been established in Lincoln. She continued her studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After a year in Chicago, she moved to New York City and enrolled in the Art Students League. She went to Paris with one of her instructors, Frank Vincent DuMond, and stayed nine months living in the Latin Quarter. She also traveled to Arizona and New Mexico. She married Arthur Edmiston, an insurance man, in Lincoln, and had three children. == Career ==

In 1893, she taught art at the University of Nebraska and was assistant to the head of the department, Cora Parker. In 1923 she won a $100 prize for her work in the Society of Fine Arts Exhibition in Omaha, Nebraska. In 1934 she was included in the Joslyn Art Museum's Five States exhibition, as she was again in 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940, and 1941. In 1941 she was given a solo show at the Joslyn that focused on her monotypes. She was one of the first members of the Nebraska Art Association before it merged with the Haydon Art Club, and was the president of the Lincoln Artists Guild in 1920. Her work is owned by the Vanderpoel Collection in Chicago, Lincoln Public Libraries, the Museum of Nebraska Art, and the Sheldon Museum of Art. == Legacy ==

She was honored at Nebraska Art Association anniversary celebrations in 1938 and 1963. == References ==