Edith Grace Coombs

Edith Grace Coombs (1890–1986) was a Canadian artist and educator.

Career Coombs was born in Hamilton and then moved with her family to St. Catharines. She studied painting in Gananoque and then studied at the Ontario College of Art from 1913 to 1918. Coombs became an assistant instructor at the College. She continued her studies at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts. She taught art at Edgehill College in Windsor, Nova Scotia, at Havergal College in Toronto from 1919 to 1921 and at the Ontario College of Art from 1921 to 1956. Her art is included in the collections of the Art Gallery of Hamilton, the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Macdonald-Stewart Art Centre and the University of Guelph.

In 1942, she married James Sharp Lawson.

Coombs died in St. Catharines in 1986. The fonds covers the date rage ca. 1839 to 2005. It contains 0.58 metres of textual records in addition to a number of media records (including watercolours and drawings). The records relate to the following series: personal material; art records; professional records; publicity and promotional material; resource and reference material; and, photographic records.