EDITH COOMBS

Titled verso "Still Life: Apples with Irregular Old Bottle", signed lower right, signed verso and noted "Property of E. Grace Lawson Coombs", oil on board, 30.5 x 40.6cm (12 x 16in) - Edith Grace Lawson Coombs (signed paintings "J.S. Lawson" after marrying in 1942), Canadian, 1890-1986; born in Hamilton, Ontario, she eventually moved to St. Catherines and studied at the Ontario College of Art from 1913-1918; an educator most of her life, Coombs taught at Edgehill College in Nova Scotia, Havergal College in Toronto and the Ontario College of Art from 1921-1956