HOW SHE DID IT! THE CREATIVITY OF GEORGEANNA LIPE

By Patricia Daly-Lipe

Review by Pennel Paugh

June 24, 2023 (San Diego) -- With a brief biography, author Patricia Daly-Lipe and her husband put together a lovely collection of notes, drawings, and paintings they inherited from Steele’s mother, Georgeanna Lipe. The talented artist lived from 1909 – 2012.

Georgeanna Lipe’s watercolors in How She Did It include areas in San Diego and Europe. Her style is delightful. This review includes examples of her paintings.

Her family owned a luggage manufacturing and sales business in Nashville. Her father came from a long line of Scottish-Irish pioneers who settled in the south from North Carolina to what became Tennessee.

In 1930, she graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in Art and Medical Science. At that time, photography was not yet a reliable source to document medical procedures or medical works. She married a medical student whom she met, a Vanderbilt. The two of them eventually moved to San Diego. During the Depression, Georgeanna used her artistic prowess to sketch surgical procedures that appeared in medical journals and research papers. After she moved to San Diego, she worked on creative illuminations for local churches.

Dr. Patricia Daly-Lipe, is an author, artist and speaker. She has written ten books. Her first La Jolla book was the winner of the San Diego Books Awards in 2002. A Cruel Calm, the USABookNews.com Finalist Award, 2013 she won First Prize for historical fiction. Named Author of the Year 2016-2017 by the International Association of Top Professionals and Lifetime of Achievement and Success in 2017. She was raised in La Jolla and Washington, D.C. She still owns a house in La Jolla and remains a member of the San Diego Writers and Editors Guild.

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