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1917 Beatrice, Nebraska - 2010 Spokane, Washington. Known for: Abstract expressionist painting, teaching.
Kathleen Gemberling Adkison (1917-2010). Kathleen Gemberling Adkison was one of the first American artists to abandon easels and traditional brushwork in favor of applying paint directly to canvases... Read full biography
Kathleen Gemberling Adkison (1917-2010). Kathleen Gemberling Adkison was one of the first American artists to abandon easels and traditional brushwork in favor of applying paint directly to canvases set on the floor. She learned this radical approach from her primary teacher, Mark Tobey. For his... Read full biography
Kathleen Gemberling Adkison (1917-2010). Kathleen Gemberling Adkison was one of the first American artists to abandon easels and traditional brushwork in favor of applying paint directly to canvases set on the floor. She learned this radical approach from her primary teacher, Mark Tobey. For his part, Tobey, while living in Seattle, had developed these techniques in an effort to produce paintings inspired by Oriental calligraphy. Kathleen Gemberling was born July 5, 1917 in Beatrice, Nebraska.... Read full biography
Kathleen Gemberling Adkison (1917-2010). Kathleen Gemberling Adkison was one of the first American artists to abandon easels and traditional brushwork in favor of applying paint directly to canvases set on the floor. She learned this radical approach from her primary teacher, Mark Tobey. For his part, Tobey, while living in Seattle, had developed these techniques in an effort to produce paintings inspired by Oriental calligraphy. Kathleen Gemberling was born July 5, 1917 in Beatrice, Nebraska. In 1936 her family moved to Seattle, where she attended West Seattle High School and began private art lessons with realist painter Leon Berbyshire. From 1946-1950, she studied in Seattle with both Morris Graves and Mark Tobey, though it was Tobey... Read full biography
Kathleen Gemberling Adkison (1917-2010). Kathleen Gemberling Adkison was one of the first American artists to abandon easels and traditional brushwork in favor of applying paint directly to canvases set on the floor. She learned this radical approach from her primary teacher, Mark Tobey. For his part, Tobey, while living in Seattle, had developed these techniques in an effort to produce paintings inspired by Oriental calligraphy. Kathleen Gemberling was born July 5, 1917 in Beatrice, Nebraska. In 1936 her family moved to Seattle, where she attended West Seattle High School and began private art lessons with realist painter Leon Berbyshire. From 1946-1950, she studied in Seattle with both Morris Graves and Mark Tobey, though it was Tobey whom she considered to be her most influential teacher. Adkison (her married name) soon moved on to Spokane, Washington,... Read full biography
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Keywords (21)
Art Method
- •Painting, Fine Art
Art Style
- •Abstract Expressionism
- •Abstraction and Realism; Semi Abstract
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Gestural/ Action /Drip/Poured Painting
- •Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
Art Subject
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Asia, Orient
- •Europe
Art Teacher
- •Leon Berbyshire
- •Mark Tobey
- •Morris Graves
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Museum of Nebraska Art Project: Women Artists Before 1945
- •Wikipedia Category of Top American Women Painters
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Seattle World's Fair, 1962
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts