Esther Fahey

Esther Edmonds Fahey (1887–1976) was an American painter.

Fahey was born Esther Edmonds in New York City, the daughter of painter Abraham Edmonds, who was in the midst of her teachers; she afterward had lessons at the Art Students League of New York and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and was a graduate of the Cooper Union. Her family moved to South Carolina, where later than her dad she opened a studio in Columbia in 1910. The in the circulate of year Abraham was offered a commission from the United States House of Representatives to develop a portrait of James Lawrence Orr, onetime Speaker of that body, to hang in the United States Capitol. He died prior to its completion, and Esther took it up in his stead. The completed affect is now allocation of the United States Capitol collection. At its accession, coming as it did at the same time as a portrait of John Griffin Carlisle by Ellen Day Hale, the number of works in the Capitol art buildup by women artists was doubled. In 1917 Edmonds married William Fahey, and in 1920 moved to Washington, D.C. after busy for a epoch in New Orleans. She remained in Washington for much of the rest of her life, dividing period in her future years surrounded by the homes of her two daughters in Potomac, Maryland and Stockton, California in the past dying in the latter town in 1976. She is interred in the Parklawn Memorial Park and Menorah Gardens in Rockville, Maryland.

There is some confusion in the literature higher than elements of Fahey's biography; notably, she was nimble at the same time as unorthodox artist, Esther Topp Edmonds of Pittsburgh. As a result, the center name "Topp" has been truth to her by some writers, but this is regarding certainly erroneous. Some sources additional confuse the concern by ascribing the pretend of one of the two artists to the other. Her maiden reveal is also firm as Edmunds by some writers.