Tosca (Barteau) Olinsky - Artist Info

About Tosca (Barteau) Olinsky

  • Biography

    Tosca Olinsky was born on March 11, 1909, in Florence, Italy. The daughter of Ivan Olinsky, (1878-1962), she worked primarily in New York City and Old Lyme, Connecticut where she joined her famous father, who was long associated with the Old Lyme Artists Colony. There she was both an active painter and teacher at the school.

    She was a member of the National Academy of Design, American Water Color Society, the National Arts Club and the Lyme Art Association. She exhibited in sixteen annual exhibitions of the National Academy of Design, won the Gloria Layton Prize in 1960 at the Allied Artists of America exhibition, and displayed works at the National Arts Club in New York, in 1934, 1935 and 1937.

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