Description
Elsie Lower Pomeroy (1882—1971) was an artist most closely associated with the American Scene Painting movement and specifically California Regionalism or California Scene Painting. She was also one of a small group of botanical illustrators who worked for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in the early 20th century.
Elsie E. Lower was born September 30, 1882, in New Castle, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Cyrus B. Lower, a decorated Union Army American Civil War veteran and Medal of Honor recipient. She grew up in Washington D.C. and graduated from the Corcoran School of Art in the early 1900s.
