Edward C. Caswell (1879 - 1963). Drawing dated: 1898 - Titled: Shelter Rock Rd. , Danbury CT. Caswell was a New York Artist who was a newspaper and book illustrator, and on occasion exhibited his work in art galleries. In the 1920s, he kept a studio in the Ovington Building in Brooklyn, and in subsequent decades, in the Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan. He helped to establish annual outdoor art exhibitions in Greenwich Village. As a boy he had a special interest in drawing the outdoors, ships, old docks, country villages, and trees. Caswell travelled and did the illustrations for a number of European travel books, such as "Spanish Towns and People," "Romantic Czechoslovakia" and "The Hilltop Cities of Italy." Caswell illustrated "Old New York" by Edith Wharton,
