Ella Mewhinney (1891-1975)
began her art training at the Texas Presbyterian College under
Mollie Bishop. She then studied with Kathryn Cherry at the American
Women’s League in St. Louis where she learned flower painting and
decorating china. She also studied under George Bridgeman and Hans
Hansen in New York at the Art Student’s League and finally in
Colorado Springs studying landscape painting under Randall Davey.
In 1922 she and Mollie Crowther
organized the Texas Artist Camp at Christoval in Texas.
Mewhinney lived most of her life in
Holland, Texas and died in Dallas.
Mewhinney exhibited at the Edgar B.
Davis Competition in 1927 and 1928 at the Witte Memorial Museum, San
Antonio, Texas; 1936 at the Centennial Exposition in Dallas; State
Fair, Dallas; TexasSouthern States Art League; All-Southern
Exhibition, Nashville, TN; Dallas Woman's Forum: Texas State
Exposition Austin, Texas and many others winning numerous awards and
mentions.
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