Anne Ophelia Todd Dowden photograph collection

1907-1993

512

46 photographs.

Photographs from the collection of Anne Ophelia Todd Dowden including views of Dowden, her family and friends and her childhood home.

Anne Ophelia Todd Dowden was a renowned and popular botanical artist. She was born in Denver on 17 September 1907 and grew up in Boulder (the Todd family moved to Boulder in 1910). She was the daughter of James Campbell Todd, head of the University of Colorado department of clinical pathology, and Edith Belinda Todd. She received a degree in art from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh (now Carnegie-Mellon University) and spent many years in New York where she taught at Pratt Institute and Manhattanville College. After unsuccessfully trying to become a book illustrator as a young woman, by her late 40s Dowden had become a regular freelance illustrator for Life, House Beautiful, Natural History and other magazines. She began publishing books in her 50s and published over 20 books of botanical illustrations. She married Raymond Baxter Dowden in 1934, also an artist, who taught at Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture. Raymond died in 1982, and Anne returned to Boulder in 1990 and lived at Frasier Meadows Manor. She died in Boulder in 2007.

RIGHTS: Materials in this collection may be used freely for any purpose, with attribution to the Carnegie Library for Local History, Boulder. No duplicated materials may be deposited or placed on file in any other archive, museum, library or similar repository. Questions of copyright are the responsibility of the user.

Photographs.

Dowden, Anne Ophelia Todd, 1907-2007

Anne Ophelia Todd Dowden photograph collection

Photographs were donated by Linda Boley on behalf of Anne Ophelia Todd Dowden in 2004.