Still life and landscape painter Jane Piper was born in Philadelphia in 1917. She first became aware of her interest in art at the age of nine, while in France. Upon returning to the United States,... Read full biography
Still life and landscape painter Jane Piper was born in Philadelphia in 1917. She first became aware of her interest in art at the age of nine, while in France. Upon returning to the United States, she began taking painting lessons. She was influenced by an exhibition of work by Hugh Breckenridge... Read full biography
Still life and landscape painter Jane Piper was born in Philadelphia in 1917. She first became aware of her interest in art at the age of nine, while in France. Upon returning to the United States, she began taking painting lessons. She was influenced by an exhibition of work by Hugh Breckenridge and later studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with Daniel Garber. Piper also studied with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown in 1941, with Earl Horter and Arthur Carles, and at the Barnes... Read full biography
Still life and landscape painter Jane Piper was born in Philadelphia in 1917. She first became aware of her interest in art at the age of nine, while in France. Upon returning to the United States, she began taking painting lessons. She was influenced by an exhibition of work by Hugh Breckenridge and later studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with Daniel Garber. Piper also studied with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown in 1941, with Earl Horter and Arthur Carles, and at the Barnes Foundation. She taught painting and drawing at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the mid-1950s and at the Philadelphia College of Art from 1956 to 1985. Piper's first solo exhibition was held in 1943 at the Robert Carlen Gallery in Philadelphia. Her... Read full biography
Still life and landscape painter Jane Piper was born in Philadelphia in 1917. She first became aware of her interest in art at the age of nine, while in France. Upon returning to the United States, she began taking painting lessons. She was influenced by an exhibition of work by Hugh Breckenridge and later studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with Daniel Garber. Piper also studied with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown in 1941, with Earl Horter and Arthur Carles, and at the Barnes Foundation. She taught painting and drawing at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the mid-1950s and at the Philadelphia College of Art from 1956 to 1985. Piper's first solo exhibition was held in 1943 at the Robert Carlen Gallery in Philadelphia. Her work was also exhibited in New York City and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Annuals from 1945 through 1968.... Read full biography
Jane Piper - Artist Info
About Jane Piper: Books
Books & Publications (8)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Jane Piper Poetic Distillations (Hollis Taggart Galleries) (Exhibition catalog)
2005
Boyle, Richard; Bill Scott
48 pages (color)
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995
Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller
612 pages
Jane Piper: Selected Paintings, 1976-1990
1992
Matter, Mercedes; Larry Day
12 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)