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Dixie (Mrs. John L.) Cooley

Dixie Cooley was born in Hartwell, Georgia in 1896. She studied at the Gibson-Mercer Academy, the University of Chattanooga under Frank Baidsden and at the Art Students League in New York with Alexander Brook and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. She also studied art at Newcomb College in New Orleans.

She was a member of the Chattanooga Art Association, Southern States Art League and the American Artists Professional League.

She exhibited with the Chattanooga Art Association, the American Water Color Society, IBM, and Audubon Artists and had a one-person show at the American-Britain Art Center in 1943.

The University of Chattanooga Museum acquired her watercolor "Old House" after it won the University Purchase Prize and Thomas Watson purchased one of her works for the IBM collection. She has also won a number of prizes with the Southern States Art League.

Biography courtesy of Roughton Galleries, www.antiquesandfineart.com/roughton

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