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1917/18 St. Louis, Missouri - 2013 Schaumburg, Illinois. Known for: Abstract western landscape, magazine cover illustration, murals, botanics.
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. Martyl Langsdorf, Doomsday Clock Designer, Dies at 96. By WILLIAM YARDLEY. Published: April 10, 2013. Martyl Langsdorf's clock has yet to... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. Martyl Langsdorf, Doomsday Clock Designer, Dies at 96. By WILLIAM YARDLEY. Published: April 10, 2013. Martyl Langsdorf's clock has yet to strike midnight. In 1953, with the United States and the Soviet Union testing hydrogen bombs and the cold... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. Martyl Langsdorf, Doomsday Clock Designer, Dies at 96. By WILLIAM YARDLEY. Published: April 10, 2013. Martyl Langsdorf's clock has yet to strike midnight. In 1953, with the United States and the Soviet Union testing hydrogen bombs and the cold war increasingly frigid, that ominous minute hand of hers stood just two ticks from the symbolically catastrophic 12. By 1991, after the signing of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, it retreated... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. Martyl Langsdorf, Doomsday Clock Designer, Dies at 96. By WILLIAM YARDLEY. Published: April 10, 2013. Martyl Langsdorf's clock has yet to strike midnight. In 1953, with the United States and the Soviet Union testing hydrogen bombs and the cold war increasingly frigid, that ominous minute hand of hers stood just two ticks from the symbolically catastrophic 12. By 1991, after the signing of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, it retreated to a relatively reassuring 11:43 p.m. But the Doomsday Clock, which Mrs. Langsdorf drew for the June 1947 cover of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists as a way to evoke the potential devastation of nuclear weapons, did not stay in reverse. Before... Read full biography
Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. Martyl Langsdorf, Doomsday Clock Designer, Dies at 96. By WILLIAM YARDLEY. Published: April 10, 2013. Martyl Langsdorf's clock has yet to strike midnight. In 1953, with the United States and the Soviet Union testing hydrogen bombs and the cold war increasingly frigid, that ominous minute hand of hers stood just two ticks from the symbolically catastrophic 12. By 1991, after the signing of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, it retreated to a relatively reassuring 11:43 p.m. But the Doomsday Clock, which Mrs. Langsdorf drew for the June 1947 cover of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists as a way to evoke the potential devastation of nuclear weapons, did not stay in reverse. Before Mrs. Langsdorf died on March 26, at 96, the board of the Bulletin, which adjusts the minute hand acco... Read full biography
Suzanne Schweig Langsdorf Martyl - Artist Info
About Suzanne Schweig Langsdorf Martyl: Keywords
Keywords (46)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Painting, Fine Art
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
- •Acrylic Paint
- •Fresco Painting, Murals
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Lithography, Lithograph
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Tempera
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Abstraction and Realism; Semi Abstract
- •Abstraction, Abstract
Art Subject
- •Botanics, Plant Life
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
- •National Parks and/or State Parks
- •Social Commentary, Cultural Issues, Political, Racial Views
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Cape Cod, Massachusetts
- •Grand Canyon, Arizona
- •Provincetown, Massachusetts
Art Teacher
- •Arnold Blanch
- •Boardman Robinson
- •Charles Hawthorne
Art School
- •Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Frank Logan Prize, Art Institute of Chicago
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Abstraction Specialty
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Botany Specialty
- •Magazine/Book and/or Comic Book Cover Art
- •Mural Specialty
- •Post Office Mural Painter, WPA Treasury Relief Art Project
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Artist Colony
- •Ste. (Sainte) Genevieve Art Colony, Missouri
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
- •Metropolitan Museum of Art
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts