(1869 - 1958)
Margaret May Dashiell was active/lived in Virginia, Louisiana. Margaret Dashiell is known for Afro-American genre painting, illustration.
Biography Margaret Dashiell
A New Orleans native, Margaret May Dashiell lived and worked in
Richmond, Virginia, eventually becoming a prolific artist, illustrator
and writer. She is best known for her drawings and watercolors of
African-American domestic workers and street vendors, as well as
Confederate veterans, from the end of the nineteenth century through
Dashiell was a prominent Richmond upper-class lady, a friend to
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ellen Glasgow, a suffragist, and an
importer and seller of European art prints, engravings, books and
antiques in a shop on Adams Street, Richmond. She was familiar
with the African-American domestic workers, market vendors, and the
tattered Confederate veterans who peopled t
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