Owen, C. B. (Clara Belle), 1854-1955
Painter
Size: 0.2 Linear feet
Summary: The letters of painter C. B. Owen measure 0.2 linear feet and date from 1880 to 1881. Owen's journal contains twenty-six letters to her family describing a trip to Europe. Owen writes of her time in London and Paris with her art teacher, Susan Healy St. John, her husband, and son James, the illustrator of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan books.
Painter C. B. Owen (1854-1955) was active in New York City and Los Angeles and Pasadena, California. She was born in McHenry, Illinois, and spent two years studying in Europe. Her works include portraits of Lillian Russell and Nevada Senator John Percival Jones. She also painted landscapes of New England, Florida, Nevada, and California.
Donated in 1998 by Maudelle Hoy Woodruff, Owen's niece-in-law.
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