Margaret Cox Herrick Paintings

Margaret Cox Herrick was born in San Francisco, California, on June 24, 1865. She was the daughter of artist William F. Herrick. She studied at the local School of Design under Virgil Williams, Emil Carlsen, and Arthur Mathews, as well as in the studios of Wm Keith, Frederick Yates, and Mary Curtis Richardson. She further studied at the Art Students League of New York and also in Europe. Working in oil and watercolor, she produced landscapes, portraits, figure studies, and still lifes. Her works were exhibited at the Piedmont Art Gallery in Oakland (1907); California Artists, Golden Gate Park Museum (1915); San Francisco Art Association (1904-23); Oakland Art Gallery (1939); Golden Gate International Exposition (1939); Society for Sanity in Art, CPLH (1940). Her major artworks include Lunette at the YWCA, Oakland; Portrait of Rev. J.K. McLean at the First Congregational Church, Oakland; Portrait of Herbert Hoover at the Kansas City Convention Hall and Portrait of Charles Lindbergh at the Veterans Home, Livermore. After the earthquake of 1906, she moved across the Bay to a home in Piedmont, California, at 312 Pacific Avenue and maintained a studio in Oakland at 1302 12th Street. A spinster, Herrick died in Piedmont on June 16, 1950.