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ELOISE POLK McGILL (AM. 1868-1939)
Born in Independence, McGill was reared there and on a ranch in Bandera County, then moved to San Antonio where she graduated valedictorian from Main Avenue High School. McGill studied under the miniaturist Rhoda Carleton Holmes Nicholls, at the Art Students League of New York, under Frank Vincent Dumond, in Paris under Robert Reid, and under William Merritt Chase in New York; she studied landscape painting at the Cape Cod (Massachusetts) Art School. In San Antonio she was a student of Robert Jenkins Onderdonk. She taught in her Alamo Heights studio where she conducted the Edgar B. Davis School of Wildflower Painting. McGill died in San Antonio. She was a direct descendant of President James K. Polk and a niece of Judge Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor, a founder of Baylor University, a member of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas and a delegate to the Texas constitutional convention of 1845.
Source: Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists by John and Deborah Powers
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