Elsie Dodge Pattee Auger (1876–1975) was an American miniature painter.

Elsie Dodge Pattee Auger
Miniature portrait by Elsie Dodge Pattee
Born	Elsie Dodge (1876-09-04)September 4, 1876[1] Chelsea, MA
Died	1975 (aged 97–98)[2] Old Lyme, CT

Early life

She was the daughter of David L. Dodge and Emma H. Dodge; her parents were wealthy from their business in dry goods.[3] In her youth she studied in London and Dresden.[3] While in London, she married Elmer Ellsworth Pattee in 1900. She studied at the Académie Julian in Paris.[3] She stayed in France for twenty years, returning to the United States in 1912.[4] Her first husband Elmer Ellsworth Pattee died in 1925 in France, while Pattee was in New York.[3] Her second husband was Charles E. Auger.[4]

Art career

Dodge was a member of the American Society of Miniature Painters. She illustrated children's books, including Christmas, The Animal Book by William Allen Butler.[2] In 1915 she received a medal at the Panama-Pacific Exposition.

Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[2] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[5] the Brooklyn Museum,[6] and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.[7]

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