Edith Magonigle

American painter and sculptor Edith Magonigle was married to Harold Van Buren Magonigle (1867-1935), an architect, artist, and author, who had his greatest success as a designer of monuments, but his artistic talents extended to sculpture, painting, writing, and graphic design. Edith grew up in Brooklyn and New York. She studied at the National Academy School where she enrolled in the antique class in 1896, and worked as a painter, muralist and sculptor, mostly with her husband. One of her major works was the mural for the Liberty Memorial in Kansas, one of the world’s largest works in the early 20th century by a woman. During World War I, Edith belonged to a group that painted sceneries for the training of soldiers.

Both of her paintings (oil or watercolor) submitted to the Art Competitions showed skating motifs. According to a contemporary description, “both [are] showing figures flitting gracefully over the ice in a great New York rink”.