She studied first under her father's instruction and then under John Elwood Bundy at Earlham College, under Frank Duveneck and Lewis Henry Meakin at the Art Academy of Cincinnati (where she received a scholarship in 1904) and with the Overbeck Sisters in Cambridge City, Indiana.
Eggemeyer was a versatile painter and is best known for her oil paintings of backyard gardens, landscapes, and still life scenes, though she also equally adept at portraiture.
[2] She was also known to travel to paint the gardens of well-known families in the neighboring state of Ohio.
[2] She died in 1959 in Asheville, North Carolina, at the home of her sister where she had gone to live.
She is buried in the Kaufman family plot at Earlham Cemetery in Richmond, Indiana.