Best known for her lithographs addressing social issues, Elizabeth Olds was committed to the idea that art is democratic and should be within the intellectual and physical reach of all the people.... Read full biography
Best known for her lithographs addressing social issues, Elizabeth Olds was committed to the idea that art is democratic and should be within the intellectual and physical reach of all the people. She was also an artist in residence at the Yaddo and McDowell artist's colonies, lived on Long Island... Read full biography
Best known for her lithographs addressing social issues, Elizabeth Olds was committed to the idea that art is democratic and should be within the intellectual and physical reach of all the people. She was also an artist in residence at the Yaddo and McDowell artist's colonies, lived on Long Island and moved to Florida in 1971. She lived to the age of ninety-five and was born in Minneapolis and attended the School of Art there. Then she won a scholarship to the Art Students League in New York... Read full biography
Best known for her lithographs addressing social issues, Elizabeth Olds was committed to the idea that art is democratic and should be within the intellectual and physical reach of all the people. She was also an artist in residence at the Yaddo and McDowell artist's colonies, lived on Long Island and moved to Florida in 1971. She lived to the age of ninety-five and was born in Minneapolis and attended the School of Art there. Then she won a scholarship to the Art Students League in New York City, where she stayed three years and was much under the influence of her teacher, George Luks, and other Social Realists. In 1925, she went to Europe and the next year became the first woman to win a Guggenheim Fellowship, which she used to study in... Read full biography
Best known for her lithographs addressing social issues, Elizabeth Olds was committed to the idea that art is democratic and should be within the intellectual and physical reach of all the people. She was also an artist in residence at the Yaddo and McDowell artist's colonies, lived on Long Island and moved to Florida in 1971. She lived to the age of ninety-five and was born in Minneapolis and attended the School of Art there. Then she won a scholarship to the Art Students League in New York City, where she stayed three years and was much under the influence of her teacher, George Luks, and other Social Realists. In 1925, she went to Europe and the next year became the first woman to win a Guggenheim Fellowship, which she used to study in Europe and stayed four years. In 1929, she returned to the United States and found her primary subject matter in Depression Era Omaha, N... Read full biography
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About Elizabeth Olds: Books
Books & Publications (39)
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Nebraska's Post Office Murals: Born of the Depression, Fostered by the New Deal
2012
Puschendorf, L. Robert
112 pages (color)
Paths to the Press: Printmaking and American Women Artists, 1910-1960 (Beach Museum of Art) (Exhibition catalog)
2006
Seaton, Elizabeth G. (Editor)
261 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
American Women Modernists: The Legacy of Robert Henri 1910-1945 (Brigham Young University Museum of Art)
2005
Marion Wardle and Stephanie
274 pages (color)
Life of the People: Realist Prints and Drawings from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection, 1912 to 1948 (Exhibition catalog)
2000
McCoy, Garnett; B Reilly Jr. and Harry L. Katz, Editor
120 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
187 pages
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995
Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller
612 pages
The Remarkable Lives Of 100 Women Artists
1994
Bailey, Brooke
207 pages
Etched, in Memory The Building and Survival of Artistic Reputation
1990
Lang, Gladys & Kurt
437 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
Posters of the WPA
1987
Denoon, Christopher
175 pages (color)
American Screenprints
1987
Williams, Dave & Reba
0 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985
Dawdy, Doris
1,184 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900
1985
Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie
851 pages
The Federal Art Project American Prints from the 1930s in the collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1985
University of Michigan Museum
220 pages
Tradition and Innovation in New Deal Art
1983
Contreras, Belasario R
253 pages
American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present
1982
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer
560 pages (color)
American Realism and the Industrial Age (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Doezema, Marianne
147 pages (color)
New Deal for Art: The Government Art Projects of the 1930s (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Park, Marlene/Gerald Markowitz
172 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
7 American Women: The Depression Decade (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Marling, Karal Ann
0 pages
America as Art
1976
Taylor, Joshua C
320 pages (color)
7 American Women The Depression Era (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Vassar College Art Gallery
39 pages
Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present
1973
Collins, Jim L.
426 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1973
1973
Jaques Cattell Press
927 pages
Art for the Millions Essays by...Artists...WPA Federal Art Project
1973
O'Connor, Francis V (editor)
317 pages
Plop Plop Ploppie
1962
Olds, Elizabeth (author/Illus)
0 pages
A History of the Arts in Minnesota
1958
O'Connor, William Van (editor)
62 pages
Deep Treasure
1958
Olds, Elizabeth (author/Illus)
0 pages
Riding the Rails
1948
Olds, Elizabeth (author/Illus)
0 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1947
1947
Gilbert, Dorothy, (Editor)
685 pages
The Big Fire
1945
Olds, Elizabeth (author/Illus)
0 pages
Frontiers of American Art: Works Progress Administration (Exhibition catalog)
1939
Parker, Thomas (De Young Mus)
111 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index