Sondra Freckelton was born in Dearborn, Michigan in 1936. She studied both art and horticulture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago. She began her career as a... Read full biography
Sondra Freckelton was born in Dearborn, Michigan in 1936. She studied both art and horticulture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago. She began her career as a sculptor working in wood and plastics, exhibiting under her married name, Sondra Beal (Freckelton... Read full biography
Sondra Freckelton was born in Dearborn, Michigan in 1936. She studied both art and horticulture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago. She began her career as a sculptor working in wood and plastics, exhibiting under her married name, Sondra Beal (Freckelton and her husband, artist Jack Beal, live and work near Oneonta, New York, and in New York City). During the early 1970's, Freckelton turned to realism in her work, as part of the movement toward a "New... Read full biography
Sondra Freckelton was born in Dearborn, Michigan in 1936. She studied both art and horticulture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago. She began her career as a sculptor working in wood and plastics, exhibiting under her married name, Sondra Beal (Freckelton and her husband, artist Jack Beal, live and work near Oneonta, New York, and in New York City). During the early 1970's, Freckelton turned to realism in her work, as part of the movement toward a "New Realism". She began working in transparent watercolor, painting everyday objects around her home combined with flowers and other plant life, contrasting three-dimensional form and two-dimensional pattern. She had been making watercolor studies for her... Read full biography
Sondra Freckelton was born in Dearborn, Michigan in 1936. She studied both art and horticulture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago. She began her career as a sculptor working in wood and plastics, exhibiting under her married name, Sondra Beal (Freckelton and her husband, artist Jack Beal, live and work near Oneonta, New York, and in New York City). During the early 1970's, Freckelton turned to realism in her work, as part of the movement toward a "New Realism". She began working in transparent watercolor, painting everyday objects around her home combined with flowers and other plant life, contrasting three-dimensional form and two-dimensional pattern. She had been making watercolor studies for her transparent cast-resin sculptures. Freckelton's compositions are influenced by a feeling for music, "a mixture of complicated... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (22)
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100 New York Painters
2006
Dantzic, Cynthia Maris
224 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Four Artists: Four Objects (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Arthur, John
30 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997
Marquis Who's Who
1,515 pages
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995
Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller
612 pages
The Art of Watercolor (Revised Edition)
1994
LeClair, Charles
144 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Tandem Press: Five Years Of Collaboration and Experimentation
1993
Stevens, Andrew (essay)
116 pages (color)
American Realist Painting 1945-1980
1989
Ward, John L
431 pages
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
A Graphic Muse Prints by Contemporary Women
1987
Field, Richard S/Ruth E Fine
163 pages (color)
Modern American Realism The Sara Roby Foundation Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Mecklenburg, Virginia
148 pages (color)
American Watercolors
1986
Finch, Christopher
312 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
Dynamic Still Lifes in Watercolor
1983
Doherty, M. Stephen
143 pages (color)
Perspectives on Contemporary American Realism (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Goodyear, Frank H
91 pages (color)
Realist Drawings & Watercolors Contemporary American Works on Papers