| Rowena Meeks Abdy |
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| american painters | |
| abdy, rowena meeks | |
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| 1887 births | |
| 1945 deaths | |
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Weeks was born in Vienna to wealthy American parents, with whom she moved to San Francisco at age three. Although crippled at birth, she proved motivated as a young girl and enrolled in the Mark Hopkins Art Institute in her early teens. There she studied under Arthur Frank Mathews. In the year 1910 she married writer Harry B. Abdy , and the couple established their first home in the thriving art colony at Monterey, California . In Monterey she studied with the distinguished California artist Armin Hansen . In Monterey she enjoyed painting views of wharves and fisheries activity as did her coeval painter Lillie May Nicolson . Later she moved to San Juan Bautista , where her fondness for Spanish architecture led her to build a Mission Style home. In 1917 she moved again south to San Diego , but by 1926 she surfaced again in residence on Lombard Street, San Francisco , considered the world's crookedest street. She remained in San Francisco until her death from Alcoholism . Abdy's works are held in the following permanent collections:
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