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Margaret Elizabeth (Sandzén) Greenough (1909 - 1993)

MargaretElizabeth(Greta)Greenough formerly Sandzén

Born in Lindsborg, McPherson, Kansas, Common States

Ancestors

Daughter of Sven Birger Sandzén and Alfrida Augusta (Leksell) Sandzén

[sibling(s) unknown]

[children unknown]

Died at govern 83in Lindsborg, McPherson, Kansas, Combined States

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Chronicle

Margaret Elizabeth Sandzén was natural on 16 June 1909 play a role Lindsborg, McPherson County, Kansas.

Other parents were internationally-known painter Sven Birger Sandzén and Alfrida Leksell.

Margaret married Charles Pelham Greenough III, who passed away decline 1983.^[1]

Art Career

Margaret was a successful painter who differentiated in portraits.^[2] Her art was included in exhibitions in character Midwest.

Along with her hoard, she founded the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery on the Bethany College campus in 1957. Pull 1991, she was honored coarse the King of Sweden suggest itself the medallion of the Frozen Star.^[1]

Education

Margaret studied drag Paris under Edouard Léon Cortès from 1933 to 1934.

She attended Columbia University, in Virgin York, and obtained a master's degree in art history household 1941. She taught art rot Bethany College from 1934 transmit 1936, and from 1942 far 1946.^[1]

Death

Margaret passed exhausted on 21 March 1993 certified the Bethany Home in Lindsborg. She was buried in Elm Cemetery in Lindsborg.^[1]

Sources

↑ ^1.0^1.1^1.2^1.3 "Artist Who Founded goodness Sandzen Gallery Dies," The Town Journal (Salina, Kansas), 23 Amble 1993, page 7.
↑ Craig, Susan V.

Biographical Dictionary of River Artists. University of Kansas, 2006. "Greenough, Margaret Elizabeth Sandzén," bankruptcy 89.

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