Minnie Rogers Steele

Life Dates1860 – 1940

Minnie Rogers Steele (b. 1860/ d. 1940) took drawing lessons as a child at St. Margaret’s School in Waterbury, CT and later became influential as an art teacher in Waterbury. In 1881 she began her art studies in New York City at the Art Students League under Charles Melville Dewey. She also studied in Philadelphia at the Academy of Fine Arts and in Provincetown during the summer. Her instructors included Dewey, William Merritt Chase, and Frank Dumond. In winter 1928-29, she studied in Paris under the French modern painter, Andre Lohte.