A painter of semi-abstract canvases, Loren MacIver was raised in New York City where she took her only formal art training at age 10 at the Art Students' League. She traveled in Europe but lived most... Read full biography
A painter of semi-abstract canvases, Loren MacIver was raised in New York City where she took her only formal art training at age 10 at the Art Students' League. She traveled in Europe but lived most of her life in Greenwich Village, painting dreamlike, half-abstract landscapes. In 1929, she... Read full biography
A painter of semi-abstract canvases, Loren MacIver was raised in New York City where she took her only formal art training at age 10 at the Art Students' League. She traveled in Europe but lived most of her life in Greenwich Village, painting dreamlike, half-abstract landscapes. In 1929, she married Lloyd Frankenberg, a poet, and they collaborated with their work. In 1935, her husband, without her knowledge, showed her paintings to Alfred Barr, Director of the Museum of Modern Art. He bought... Read full biography
A painter of semi-abstract canvases, Loren MacIver was raised in New York City where she took her only formal art training at age 10 at the Art Students' League. She traveled in Europe but lived most of her life in Greenwich Village, painting dreamlike, half-abstract landscapes. In 1929, she married Lloyd Frankenberg, a poet, and they collaborated with their work. In 1935, her husband, without her knowledge, showed her paintings to Alfred Barr, Director of the Museum of Modern Art. He bought one of her paintings, and this attention launched her art career. She painted in Provincetown from 1930 to 1938. Her first one-person show was in 1938. She worked for three years on the WPA Federal Art Project and continued to have New York Gallery... Read full biography
A painter of semi-abstract canvases, Loren MacIver was raised in New York City where she took her only formal art training at age 10 at the Art Students' League. She traveled in Europe but lived most of her life in Greenwich Village, painting dreamlike, half-abstract landscapes. In 1929, she married Lloyd Frankenberg, a poet, and they collaborated with their work. In 1935, her husband, without her knowledge, showed her paintings to Alfred Barr, Director of the Museum of Modern Art. He bought one of her paintings, and this attention launched her art career. She painted in Provincetown from 1930 to 1938. Her first one-person show was in 1938. She worked for three years on the WPA Federal Art Project and continued to have New York Gallery representations. In 1997, a retrospective of her painting was held at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York. MacIver was also a mag... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (102)
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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
Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999
Editor, Smith College Museum
307 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Eye of Duncan Phillips A Collection in the Making
1999
Passantino, Erika D (editor)
819 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997
Marquis Who's Who
1,515 pages
American Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists
1996
Shipp, Steve
159 pages
Still Life The Object in American Art, 1915-1995 (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Sims, Lowery/Sabine Rewald
175 pages (color)
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995
Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller
612 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
American Women Painters of the 1930s and 1940s
1991
Henkes, Robert
236 pages
The Landscape in Twentieth Century American Art
1991
Rosenblum, Robert (intro)
174 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
American Realist Painting 1945-1980
1989
Ward, John L
431 pages
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition)
1987
Feldman, Edmund Burke
528 pages (color)
Modern American Realism The Sara Roby Foundation Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Mecklenburg, Virginia
148 pages (color)
A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art
1986
Chetham, Charles; David Grose
312 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection
1985
DuPont, Diana, K Holland
402 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
With an Eye to American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Miller, Dorothy C
16 pages
Advancing American Art Politics and Aesthetics/State Dept Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Ausfeld, M L/V M Mecklenburg
108 pages (color)
World Artists 1950-1980
1984
Marks, Claude
912 pages
Tradition and Innovation in New Deal Art
1983
Contreras, Belasario R
253 pages
Loren MacIver Five Decades
1983
Gernand, John
57 pages (color)
Realism and Realities The Other Side of American Painting 1940-1960 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Berman, Greta/Jeffrey Wechsler
195 pages (color)
American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present
1982
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer
560 pages (color)
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
Lawrence H Bloedel Collection Loan Exhibition/Whitney/Williams College (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Pope, Annemarie H
64 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
Women Artists in Washington Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Withers, Josephine
144 pages (color)
The Eccentrics and Other American Visionary Painters
1978
Davidson, Abraham A
203 pages (color)
Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
1977
Barr, Alfred H
655 pages
Eighteen Contemporary Masters (United States Embassy, Ottawa)