Edna Marie Schmidt Art

Edna Marie Schmidt was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1912 and was a lifelong resident there. Her art career began at the young age of 9 when she entered the Art Academy of Cincinnati. After graduating from Withrow High School, she attended the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Cincinnati. That education led to doing fashion artwork for Mabley-Carew and the Cincinnati Enquirer. Several years later, she was offered a better job in Milwaukee doing fashion page work for the Milwaukee Sentinel. She married William C. Schmidt of Cincinnati in 1937. Her art studies continued around the USA at various workshops, although her principal influence was her instructor Carl Zimmerman and the weekly studio that she attended for more than a decade in the 70s and 80s in his Loveland, Ohio studio. She has participated in numerous shows, with several one-woman shows featuring her work. Schmidt's commissioned portraits of industry and educational leaders hang in various public buildings of the Cincinnati area including her Camargo Hunt series of fox hunting oils. She was known for portrait and landscape painting, alongside with newspaper fashion illustration, Schmidt died in 1999 in her hometown.