User:Carptrash/Margaret Dobson

Margaret Anne Dobson (November 9, 1888- January 20, 1981) American painter, etcher, illustrator and muralist, born in Baltimore, Maryland. She studied at the Maryland Institute, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Fontainebleau School of Art in Paris and Syracuse University. At various times she studied with Cecilia Beaux, Emil Carlsen, Daniel Garber, Violet Oakley, and Robert Vonnoh.

During the Depression years Bessemer worked as an artist for the Federal Art Project, painting post office murals in Kaufman, Texas entitles Driving the Steers, which was later "covered over" or "destroyed".