Edith Haworth (1878–1953) was an American painter, who studied art in New York and showed her work in New York City and Detroit, Michigan, particularly at the Detroit Institute of Arts. In 1903 she was co-founder and treasurer of the Detroit Society of Women Painters.

Education Haworth studied under William Merritt Chase at the Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art on Long Island, New York.Chris Petteys. (1985). Dictionary of Women Artists, G K Hill & Co. publishers. She studied at the New York School of Art, now Parsons The New School for Design, which was founded by William Merritt Chase in 1896.History. Parsons The New School for Design. Retrieved January 29, 2014. Haworth had art instruction in Europe.

Personal life In 1897 she is listed as an artist,Detroit City Directory, 1897. Detroit: R. L Polk & Company. p. 1926. and she lived at the same address in 1898.Detroit City Directory, 1898. Detroit: R. L Polk & Company. p. 711. In 1915 she was no longer living in Michigan, but continued to contribute to Michigan Artists exhibitions."Michigan Artists." Bulletin of the Detroit Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts Vol. 10, No. 4. December, 1915, pp. 6-7.

Career

She was at the Detroit School of Art in 1900 and 1904.Detroit City Directory, August 15, 1900. Detroit: R. L Polk & Company. p. 753.Detroit City Directory, 1904. Detroit: R. L Polk & Company. p. 1310. Three years later, she was a founding member and treasurer of the Detroit Society of Women Painters, which was formed to provide art instruction and broaden artistic opportunities for their members.Marian Wardle. American Women Modernists: The Legacy of Robert Henri, 1910-1945. Rutgers University Press; 2005. . p. 201.American Art Annual. American Art Annual Incorporated; 1903. p. 190.

In April 1909 Robert Henri made a portrait of Haworth that is in the collection of the Indiana University Art Museum.Indiana University, Bloomington. Art Museum; Adelheid M. Gealt. Masterworks from the Indiana University Art Museum. Indiana University Art Museum; 2007. .Bennard B. Perlman. Robert Henri: His Life and Art. Courier Dover Publications; 1991. . p. 91.Portrait of Edith Haworth. Art Inventories Catalog. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS). Retrieved January 29, 2014.

In Michigan, she exhibited at the Detroit Society of Women Painters and Sculptors, the Detroit Water Color Societies and "numerous times" between 1905 and 1924 at the Detroit Institute of Art.Anthony Hopkin Gibson. (1975). Artists in Early Michigan: A Biographical Dictionary of Artists Native to or Active in Michigan, 1701-1900, Wayne State University Press, Detroit. In New York, she exhibited in 1912 and 1914 at the MacDowell Club;Florence N. Levy, editor. American Art Directory, Volume XI. New York: American Federation of Arts; 1914. p. 229, 230. the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art, including two watercolors, The village band and The birthday party;Milton W. Brown. (1963). The Story of the Armory Show, The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation. p. 242 and at the 1914 National Arts Club exhibition of the Pastellists.American Pastels in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art; 1989. . p. 21, 31. She also exhibited there in 1919 at the Powell Galleries exhibition.Powell Gallery exhibition catalog, 1919. New York: Powell Gallery. Collections Search Center. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved January 29, 2014. Before 1911 she exhibited in Munich. She also exhibited at the Independent Artists Exhibitions.

During February 1931, Morton Galleries held a retrospective of her oil paintings since 1905. The following year her water colors were shown there in January.Arts Magazine. Art Digest Incorporated; 1931. p. 9.

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