__NOTOC__ Frances Fowler (June 1864 – June 5, 1943) was an American

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, notable as a student of Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer. The daughter of F.C. and Harriett (Reese) Herrick, she studied at

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before marrying Edward Fowler, a Columbia, Tennessee judge in 1895. After his death in 1908, she returned to Bowling Green to study with Hergesheimer. She traveled extensively throughout

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and

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to study art. She died in Bowling Green in 1943.

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