Barbara Krans Jenkins says:
Karen left out Mina Lowry, Georges' sister, I believe. Ask Karen. She was a wonderful artist too. She never married and she was a professional artist. She won a couple Guggenheim (sp?) awards, very VERY prestigious. I have always felt Karen has her spirit and drive. I believe she was a woman ahead
of her times, which were waning Victorian times, I think. I have some china she painted, and Nancy has a lot more. She was mainly a portrait oil painter.
She was the official artist of the National Museum. There are many chalk drawings of dolls and toys by her online. They quote her as the artist, but really she was playing color camera for them, it's the dolls and toys that they're really displaying.
From http://snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca/grad_info/environ.html: Guelph has always been known as the Royal City and cherishes its ties to the British Royal Family. John Galt founded Guelph on St. George's Day, April 23, 1827, a day chosen to honour King George IV. The city's name also has a royal connection: the King's family bore the name "Guelph" in the early Middle Ages.
Pat Congdon:
Miney lived with a woman whose last name was Jack. Layna Jack. Layna was a school administrator. They lived in NYC. She took care of Miney. Had worked evidently with WPA. Miney died in 1942, a bowel obstruction. Died in NYC. ... Miney and Layne came to Pat and George's wedding.
Newspaper article July 21, 1933, from Dunnville Chronicle about Mina painting portrait of Pat. Pat's fatehr was mayor. Pat reads from the article. Mina studied with Weyman Adams, Howard Hildenbrad. They put the picture in Pat's father's hardware store window which embarrassed Pat. Pat thinks Aunt Lou wrote the article. Mine had a good career till the Depression came, after that nobody could afford portraits.
List of Awards of WPA artists: Mina Lowry, School of Fine Arts, Buffalo, drawing; Penn Acadamy of Fine Arts, sculpture, Grand Central School, New York 2 second and third prizes, 3 first prizes for portraiture, all done during study period. Mina was 48 when she died.
(Medical):she was gay