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In 1958 she was named a Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year. [3] Her work was included in the 2008 exhibition First Generation: Art in Claremont, 1907-1957 at the Claremont Museum of Art. [1] Papers of Arthur and Jean Ames, including examples and photographs are in the Online Archive of California. [7]
This is a partial list of 20th-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decade of birth.These artists are known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art, performance art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
In 1950, Johnston was included in a juried exhibition, curated by Andrew C. Ritchie, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where her etching won first prize. [3] She was invited by Ritchie as one of three artists to be included in a 1950-1951 New Talent exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the first of many presentations of ...
Along with fellow artists Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Ruth Weisberg, and others, Wayne was a founding member of the Los Angeles Council of Women in the Arts, which sought the equal representation of women artists in museum exhibitions. [34]
In one of her earliest public displays in Los Angeles, which was a joint exhibit in 1909 with other high school teachers, Frances contributed a collection of "striking water color scenes". At her first one-person exhibition in March 1911 at the Walker Theatre Gallery the Los Angeles Times art critic Antony Anderson described her 35 watercolor ...
Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000 a large survey exhibition and catalogue produced Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2000; [45] Twentieth Century American Sculpture in the White House Garden at The White House, Washington, D.C., in 1995; [46] and "Building on the Legacy: African American Art from the Permanent Collection ...
[2] [3] In 1934 she met Alexander Archipenko, who arranged for a scholarship for her at Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. Her first major exhibition was a juried group show at Transigram Studios in Los Angeles, where she won an Award of Merit. She moved to New York in the late 1930s and in 1938 studied briefly with Isamu Noguchi and Jose ...
Maxine Albro (January 20, 1893 – July 19, 1966) was an American painter, muralist, lithographer, mosaic artist, and sculptor. She was one of America's leading female artists, and one of the few women commissioned under the New Deal's Federal Art Project, which also employed Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning.