| Activity | Chloe Lesley Starks, nee Chloe Frances Lesley, apparently studied at the Académie Colarossi, Paris, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC (as yet unverified), and Stanford University, where she studied drawing from 1893 to 1897 but did not receive her degree. Perhaps this was because on 3 June 1897 she married fellow Stanfordian Edwin Chapin Starks, later an eminent ichthyologist.
Chloe's movements between her marriage and returning to work at Stanford in 1899 are unclear. However, she could have been at Corcoran while Edwin was working for the US Bureau of Biological Survey in Washington DC between 1897 and 1899. According to the Stanford Annual Register, Edwin did not return to California until 1900, so it would appear they were apart while he spent a year at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Chloe is listed in the Stanford Registers for 1899 to 1902 as Artist of the Hopkins Laboratory, the marine research facility. For the next thirty years, until she retired in 1932, Chloe was on the Stanford faculty teaching Drawing, progressing through the department to become Associate Professor of Graphic Arts Emeritus.
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