Edmund Marion Ashe

Edmund Marion Ashe (1867–1941) was an American artist. He was most known for his varying styles of art, which included faithful representations of factories, posters of World War I bond drives, and watercolors of the Gibson Girl.

Ashe studied at the Metropolitan Art School and the Art Students League with John Ward Stimson and Charles Vanderhoof.

Ashe was a founding member of the Silvermine Artists Guild in Norwalk, Connecticut. Other members included Addison Miller, Putnam Brinley, Clifton Meek.

Artwork Ashe's earliest oil paintings were in the impressionist style. During the first decade of the 20th century, his artwork became darker in tone with broader brushstrokes. It has been described as a more "progressive realist approach."

In 1913, Ashe's work was exhibited at the Armory Show in New York City. His work was also show at the Ferargil Galleries in 1929 and the Carnegie Institute in 1931. Quite often he was an exhibitor with the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. In 1932, 1935, and 1939, Ashe was chosen by the Carnegie Institute for the exhibition of Pittsburgh artists.

His work has also appeared in two posthumous exhibitions: "American Illustration 1890-1925: Romance, Adventure & Suspense," at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Canada; "When Coal was King: Paintings from the Steidle Collection," at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.

Personal life In 1893, Edmund M. Ashe married Estelle Egbert in West New Brighton, Staten Island, New York. They had two children, Dorothy and Edmund Jr. His son was also an artist, and drew illustrations for newspapers and The American Weekly after World War II.

Ashe retired in 1939. He moved to Charleston, South Carolina, but returned to Westport, Connecticut a few years later. He died in 1941.