Edwin Newton Botsford is listed as a printmaker, watercolorist, and commercial artist. He was born in Michigan on 5 January 1903. Edan Hughes’ research has him settling in Los Angeles in 1919 and participating in the Artists Fiesta Los Angeles in September 1931. Sadly no other information on this artist has come to light.

Edwin Botsford died in Los Angeles on 29 November 1949.