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Edward K Williams

Birth:  1-5-1870 Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania Death: 1-1-1950, Nashville In. Married: Effie Teegarden Known For:  Associations: Associate member of the New York Watercolor Society and the American Watercolor Society,  member Art Institute of Chicago Alumni, Chicago Society of Artist, Hoosier Salon, Indiana Artist Club, Chicago Galleries Association, a charter member of the Brown County Art Gallery Association Awards: Facts At seventeen took a job tinting photographs and moved on to painting landscape on safe's for the American Safe Company Studied at the Art Institute of Chicago Made trips to Brown County to paint staying in the Pitman Inn with fellow artists Gave up a successful commercial art career in Chicago and moved permanently to Nashville in 1926 at 56 Bought a home in downtown Nashville building a studio next door Even though living in Brown County Edward insisted on certain standards like dressing for dinner and using linen napkins He dressed m