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490 Avenue.2 The New York Times described her in 1914 as one of the Carmel artists who was doing “excellent work in etching.”3 She enrolled on the Carmel voter index as a “Republican” in 1914 and as a “Democrat” in 1920.4 In 1922 the MacDougals relocated to a more spacious home in the Carmel Highlands.5 According to the U.S. Census of 1920, which was completed at Tucson, Louise continued to list her occupation as “none.”6 Her husband was appointed director to the Carnegie Laboratory in Carmel. Aside from her joint exhibitions with Jennie Cannon in Tucson and Carmel, Louise contributed to the Annuals of the Carmel Arts and Crafts Club between 1909 and 1919.7 At the Seventh Annual Exhibition in 1913 she displayed three paintings and a collection of drawings: Oaks, Indian Girl, Landscape and Group of Pencil Sketches. At that same venue three years later she exhibited: Pt. Lobos, Hill Quarry and The Desert. By the early 1920s she was often absent from Carmel because of her husband’s infidelities. His lengthy affair with the writer Mary Austin was the subject of gossip on the Peninsula and reportedly caused Mrs. MacDougal’s serious “nervous disorder.” She did attend social functions on the Peninsula and even managed in the late summer of 1922 to be present at a “tea” given by Austin for Mr. MacDougal and the Carnegie staff at Carmel’s Mission Tea Room.8 Louise MacDougal died at the Monterey Peninsula Community Hospital on August 9, 1947 of a heart attack.9 ENDNOTES FOR MacDOUGAL: 1. Refer to narratives in Chapter 2 and 4; U.S. Census of 1910 [ED 95, Sheet 4B]. / 2. CPC: September 1, 1915, p.4; November 22, 1916, p.4; April 25, 1918, p.1; Perry/Polk 1916-17, p.3. / 3. NYT, February 1, 1914, p.M-15. / 4. CVRI, Monterey County: 1914, 1920. / 5. CPC, May 18, 1922, p.5; Perry/Polk: 1922-23, p.8; 1930, p.441. / 6. U.S. Census of 1920 [ED 90, Sheet 14A]. / 7. Appendix 2. / 8. CPC, September 7, 1922, p.12; TOT, August 1, 1926, p.S-5. / 9. CPC, August 15, 1947, p.18; California Death Index; cf. Hughes, p.710. EDITH (Mollie / Molly) BETHUNE MAGUIRE (1861-1946 / Plate 10b) was born on March 14th in Ireland and studied at the South Kensington Art School in London. She was a pupil of M. R. Guinness and exhibited her watercolors at the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts. Edith’s work appeared at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool prior to her immigration to the United States via Canada in 1891.1 She was a resident of Provo, Utah, in December of 1895 when she exhibited at the Third Annual of the Society of Utah Artists in Salt Lake City; through most of the first decade of the 20th century she continued to reside in Provo.2 In the U.S. Census of 1910 she gave her address as 337 Second Avenue in Salt Lake, her age as “43” and her occupation as “artist” in a home studio; the local press reported that she was socially active and a member of the Girls’ Friendly Society.3 She sketched her famous watercolors as far away as Colorado Springs. In the fall of 1914 she moved to Berkeley; the local Directory advertised her studio-home between 1915 and 1918 at three different addresses: 2212 Bancroft Way, 1073 Henry Street and 2211 Atherton Street.4 Her first public exhibition in California was in June of 1914 at Miss Hankin’s Antique Shoppe near the U.C. campus.5 Her displayed watercolors were of Western landscapes, including Colorado and Utah, as well as University buildings and views of Santa Cruz. By 1915 her name began to appear on the society pages of the East Bay newspapers.6 From the U.S. Census of 1920 we learn that she still rented her studio- residence on Atherton Street in Berkeley.7 At this time she listed her age as “45” and her year of immigration as 1898. She had become by 1919 a regular summer visitor to the Monterey Peninsula. In 1922 she relocated her home to Monterey. Here she studied with Armin Hansen and was active in the local art scene.8 She opened her first studio in March of 1923.9 In 1926 her Monterey address was at 102 Webster Street; between 1930 and 1946 her studio-home was at 717 Madison Street.10 The U.S. Census of 1930 shows that Maguire owned her Madison-Street home, which was valued at thirty-five hundred dollars, and was an unmarried naturalized citizen with her age listed as “60.”11 Prior to 1926 her participation in exhibitions on the Monterey Peninsula was limited to Carmel. She contributed to the Annual Exhibitions of the Carmel Arts and Crafts Club in 1920, 1921 and 1924.12 At the Fourteenth Annual of 1920, when her name was incorrectly spelled in the catalogue as “Edith Magnin,” she displayed a work entitled Cabrillo Point-Monterey. This was followed a year later by Del Monte Rancho and Carmel Hills. At the Club’s Eighteenth Annual in 1924 Maguire exhibited four works: Sketch-Rocks, Monterey Garden, Fisherman and Sketch. At that venue her work appeared at the Holiday Exhibition of 1920 and the Fall Exhibition of 1921. In October of 1926 she exhibited at the opening of the short-lived art gallery in Monterey’s new San Carlos Hotel.13 In 1928 and 1929 she displayed watercolors of boats at the Del Monte Art Gallery.14 Outside the Monterey Peninsula her work was frequently displayed and received many awards. In July of 1923 she held a well- attended one-man show at the Arts and Crafts Shop in Berkeley.15 A year later Maguire’s work was accepted at the spring Annual of the San LOUISE FISHER MacDOUGAL (1862-1947) was born on Francisco Art Association.16 She became a charter member of the San January 1st in Ohio. At the turn of the century she studied in New York City Francisco Society of Women Artists in April of 1925 and contributed in at the National Academy of Design and at the New York School of Art November to its Inaugural Exhibition in the Clark Hobart Gallery.17 That under William Merritt Chase. She attended classes at both institutions with December, when she displayed her work at the opening of the Hotel Jennie V. Cannon. At the latter’s invitation Louise first visited Carmel in Claremont Art Gallery in Berkeley, H. L. Dungan, art critic for The Oakland 1908 with her husband, Daniel, who was then the director of the Carnegie Tribune, characterized Maguire’s watercolors thus: “Turmoil of breakers Laboratory in Tucson. From the U.S. Census of 1910 we learn that the against the crags of the Monterey coast in her Rock and Sea, and a fine couple was married in 1892, still resided in Tucson and had one child, marine with splendidly handled water in her Fishing Boats-Monterey.”18 Alice, who was born in Ohio in 1899.1 Louise listed herself in the Census Also in December of 1925 she exhibited at San Francisco’s Galerie Beaux without an occupation. In 1911 the couple became permanent Carmel Arts paintings that were “remarkably well done.”19 The following February residents in their newly built bungalow on Dolores Street and Twelfth her work was included in the “Picture Week” Exhibition in San Francisco.20 491 Throughout 1926 she was a frequent and popular exhibitor at the Hotel during January of 1931 and a month later for the Weber College Annual the Claremont where she held a solo show in October and November.21 H. L. local newspaper ran the following:43 Dungan reproduced in The Oakland Tribune her watercolor Fishing Boats Edith Maguire’s “Monterey Village Market” is a beautiful at Wharf and said of her one-man show that there “are few artists who water color showing the foreign quarters of Monterey, Calif. The handle water color with such bigness, such simplicity and with such colored costumes of the Asiatics, the gables of the old houses with splendid results. in Storm Clouds Over Carmel . nothing needed the strong vigorous masses of shadow create a striking if not has been left out, and nothing unnecessary has been put in. There is distinguished water color. color in the white and movement in the shadows."22 Dungan added: In the spring of 1931 she exhibited at the Annual of the Oakland Art Here is Sunburst Hills. That’s California in the Fall. A Gallery.44 She returned to the Newhouse Gallery in February of 1932 and purple shadow in the foreground and rich red, brown and yellow hills. November of 1933; she was also invited in January of 1933 to exhibit at the And this small marine here is something that you will return to. Utah Art Institute.45 Her Boats at Monterey, painted “in vivid broken-up Notice the transparency of the wave as it rises to break over those color effects,” was contributed to the First Competitive Water Color rocks. Notice the movement of the water in the foreground and how Exhibition at San Francisco’s Gump Gallery in March of 1933.46 When few brush strokes there are, but each put in the only possible place to seventeen of her watercolors were given a solo exhibition that fall at get the desired result. Yonder is Beached Boat, there is plenty of Keeble’s Gallery in Palo Alto, the local press reported:47 color in it.