Andover Artist - George Walter Dawson

George Walter Dawson was born in Andover. Massachusetts, in 1870; he studied at the Massachusetts State Normal School and went on to teach drawing and water-color techniques at the University of Pennsylvania.

He painted beautiful watercolors featuring flowers. His painting of the Rose Cottage is a "famous" painting.

See

• "A Painter of Gardens", Magazine of Art Volume 5 May 1914 (can be found on Google Books.)
• Art and Progress, volume 2, issue 2

--Eleanor 12:54, September 28, 2011 (EDT)

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