Sylvia Edwards Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

After they moved from Tehran to Southern Iran, their third child, Leila was born in 1966. It was here her husband encouraged the building of a studio for her on the lower level of the house where she began to rediscover her artistic passion. The total experience of living in Iran helped contribute to Edwards’ interest in painting landscapes, flowers and, eventually, abstracts, for she began to think about the voids in the terrain.

While at secondary school she attended special classes for artistically gifted children and went on to gain acceptance at Massachusetts College of Art (University of Massachusetts) where she attended from 1954-1957. Here she discovered her love of abstraction under the tuition of Lawrence Kupferman, a modernist painter who introduced his students to the work of Georges Braque and Piet Mondrian and the dynamics of city-scapes. Her formal studies ended suddenly when she left college to marry an Iranian student, Sadri Golestaneh, who was studying to become an electronic engineer. They remained in Boston to have their first daughter, Shirin, in 1958 and then moved to Philadelphia, where their second child, Nader, was born in 1960. In 1961 the family moved to Tehran, Iran—and the next stage in Edwards’ artistic education had begun.

Sylvia Edwards was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a second-generation American. Her father, Junius Griffiths-Edwards, was a quiet man yet extremely creative, with original ideas. He was a music impresario, hiring the big bands of the 1940s, such as Harry James, Duke Ellington and Tommy Dorsey—and eventually founded a magazine, Ballroom and Orchestra, a forerunner for DownBeat. Her mother was a compassionate and independent woman with French Canadian heritage—family name Mailloux-Chabot. She encouraged Sylvia to draw images of the world around her and instilled in her a love of colour.

Sylvia Anne Edwards (30 January 1937 – 25 October 2018) was an American abstract artist. Edwards held over thirty solo exhibitions in the US, Europe, the Far and Middle East since her first commercial exhibition in 1975.