Elizabeth Ferris Summers

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Sam Blain, “Research on Missouri Artists,” five binders of documented Missouri artists.

“Mrs. Elizabeth F. Summers,” Kansas City Times, June 24, 1982, D-2.

McGlauflin, Alice Coe. Who’s Who in American Art (Washington: American Federation of Arts, 1938-1939), 511.

“Art Fair Deadline Sept. 5: Reservations for Country Club Plaza Event Are Going Fast," Kansas City Star, August 30, 1935, 19.

United States. Department of the Treasury Public Works of Art Project: Report of the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury to Federal Emergency Relief Administrator: December 8, 1933-June 30, 1934 (Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1934), 56.

“American Art At Best: Two Displays Attract Students in Kansas City," Kansas City Times, April 2, 1934, 8.

“Plaza Art Fair Picks Up," Kansas City Star, September 17, 1933, 6A.

“In Gallery and Studio,” Kansas City Star, June 10, 1933, 4.

“In Society,” Kansas City Star, March 12, 1933.

Kansas City Art Institute, Midwestern Artists’ Exhibition Catalog: representative work from Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Colorado (Kansas City: Kansas City Art Institute, 1930), 8.

“Art," Kansas City Times, January 6, 1930, 11.

“1930 United States Federal Census for Elizabeth F Summers,” Ancestry, accessed September 27, 2021.

“In Gallery and Studio," Kansas City Star, September 28, 1929, 6.

“Brief Bits of City News,” Kansas City Star, July 29, 1929, 2.

“Art," Kansas City Times, April 29 ,1929, 12.

“1920 United States Federal Census for Elizabeth F Summers,” Ancestry, accessed September 27, 2021.

Core Reference Sources

Peter H. Falk, et. al, Who was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America (Madison: Sound View Press, 1999).

Anita Jacobsen, Jacobsen's Biographical Index of American Artists (Carrollton: A.J. Publications, 2002).

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Published on September 28, 2021

Updated on February 6, 2023