1960's - 70's Enamel on Copper Plate Signed Elly Edwards

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ELLY EDWARDS BIO

The earliest published record for Elly Edwards located at the time of this writing can be found in the January 1966 “Ceramics Monthly” magazine (page 35). Edwards is mentioned as being a participant in the Newark Museum Craft Show in which she showed her enamels alongside other enamelists Paul Hultberg, S. Magnet Knapp, Priscilla Porter, Barbara Stanger, and Edna Posner. And in the July - August 1968 Craft Horizons magazine (page 35), Edwards is described as a member of the New Jersey Designer Craftsmen and a participant in their exhibition at the New Jersey State Museum where she showed her enamels.

Additional article citations can be located for Edwards as late as the mid 1980s, including an article titled “Crafts: An Inviting Season for Fair Devotees” published in The New York Times on July 14, 1985. She is discussed as one of the artists participating at the Sixth Annual Crafts Festival at Allaire State Park in Monmouth County, New Jersey. For those of you who are undertaking more extensive research on this artist, one of the articles has her first name spelled “Ellie” rather than “Elly” but she clearly signed her work “Elly Edwards.”