Edward Von Siebold Dingle South Carolina (1893-1975) CAROLINA JASMINE AND HUMMINGBIRD watercolor, framed, signed: lower right sight size: H18 1/2" W12 1/2" *Artist biography: Edward von Siebold Dingle was born on October 18, 1893. He lived on a plantation near the Santee River and developed an early interest in birds and in drawing them. He graduated from the College of Charleston but was a self-taught artist, except for some landscape instruction by famed Charleston artist, Alfred Hutty. Dingle began formally working as an artist when living in Mount Pleasant in 1923. He learned how to preserve birds and collected them in addition to painting them. As Dingle explained, "It takes years of research to become a bird painter. You must have accurate scientific knowledge of how the feathers of a particular bird grow, and how their bones and muscles are placed." He painted birds against their natural habitats, mainly in watercolor. Dingle exhibited in Los Angeles at the first American exhibition of bird paintings in 1926. He also exhibited at the First National Exhibition of American Artists at Rockefeller Center in New York in 1937. His work was included in various exhibitions at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina and in Canada. His work is part of the permanent collections of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, the Cambridge Museum in Massachusetts, the Carolina Art Association and the Gibbes Art Gallery in Charleston. His paintings were included in numerous scientific periodicals and books. He was responsible for the addition of six species to the list of South Carolina birds: Cory's shearwater, Eastern glossy ibis, Leache's petrel, European widgeon and Clay-colored sparrow. After 1927, when he married Marie G. Ball, he moved to Middleburg Plantation in Huger, SC, where he created this work, as noted on verso. He died April 21, 1975. *Reference: Kelly, James C. THE SOUTH ON PAPER: LINE, COLOR AND LIGHT, Spartanburg, SC: Robert M. Hicklin, Jr., Inc., 1985. p.35.