Eleanore Dockstader was
raised in Minnesota. She married Harold Carl Roth and moved to the
Rio Grande Valley
in 1933 where her husband operated a farm. She studied art with Ernest
Dewey Albinson, Arthur T. Kerrick,
Harry Anthony De Young,
Diego Rivera, Elliot O'Hara, Warren Brandon, and Millard Sheets. She
was a watercolor specialist but also created oil paintings, prints,
pencil drawings,
ceramics and was a talented art teacher. Her works were widely shown
across Texas and the Rio Grande Valley. Her first solo exhibition
came in 1937 in San Antonio, others were to follow including shows
in Corpus Christi, San Marcos, Kingsville and Abilene. She moved to California in 1949 where she continued
painting, teaching and exhibiting her art. She died in Santa Rosa,
California in 1975.
