Elsie Motz Lowdon

Elsie Motz Lowdon (1883–1960) was an American painter of portrait miniatures.

Born in Waco, Texas, Lowden spent her youth there,[1] studying with Eleanor T. Wragg at Baylor University,[2] before moving to New York City, where she undertook further lessons with Lucia Fairchild Fuller and Elsie Dodge Pattee.

Her works were exhibited in that city, in Atlanta, and in Washington, D.C. as well as in her native state, where she was included in the Texas Centennial Exposition of 1936;[1][3] she also showed her work at a variety of other venues, presenting a portrait at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in 1915.

[4] Known particularly for portraiture, she depicted members of such prominent Houston families as the Blaffers and Hobbys, as well as noted novelist Ellen Glasgow.

[1] Lowdon was a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, the Southern States Art League, and the Texas Fine Arts Association.