Artist

Elsie Motz Lowdon

born Waco, TX 1883-died Ft. Worth, TX 1960
Also known as
  • Elsie M. Lowdon
Born
Waco, Texas, United States
Died
Ft. Worth, Texas, United States
Active in
  • New York, New York, United States
Biography

Elsie Motz Lowdon spent her youth in Texas before moving to New York City to further her career as an artist. There, she studied with fellow miniaturists Lucia Fairchild Fuller and Elsie Pattee. Lowdon exhibited widely in Texas, New York, and Washington, D.C., and had works included in the Texas Centennial Exhibition of 1936. She painted members of the Blaffer and Hobby families in Houston, and numerous interiors and genre scenes featuring prominent sitters and family members.

Works by this artist (1 item)

Clarice Smith, Big Race, 2001, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Melvin and Ryna Cohen and the Funger Foundation, Norma Lee and Morton Funger, 2003.3
Big Race
Artist
Date2001
oil on canvas
Not on view