Elsie Driggs

Elsie Driggs (1898-1992) was an American painter best known for her contributions to Precisionism, an American modernist movement that celebrated the clean lines and geometric forms of industrial landscapes. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Driggs studied at the Art Students League in New York, where she developed her distinctive style that would marry European modernist influences with uniquely American subject matter. Driggs achieved recognition in the 1920s during the heigh…