New York, Florida. 1892 - 1962
African-American portrait sculpture, educator
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Born 1926 Los Angeles, California. Known for: Assemblage, collage-racial issues, cultural artifacts.
Betye Saar, sculptor and installation artist, was born in Los Angeles, California in 1926. She received a B.A. degree (not in art) from UCLA in 1949, and an M.A. degree in graphic design from... Read full biography
Betye Saar, sculptor and installation artist, was born in Los Angeles, California in 1926. She received a B.A. degree (not in art) from UCLA in 1949, and an M.A. degree in graphic design from California State University, Long Beach in 1960. Then, deciding to be an artist, she returned to college at... Read full biography
Betye Saar, sculptor and installation artist, was born in Los Angeles, California in 1926. She received a B.A. degree (not in art) from UCLA in 1949, and an M.A. degree in graphic design from California State University, Long Beach in 1960. Then, deciding to be an artist, she returned to college at age thirty-four, and had another art experience more formative of her artistic vision. As a child, she watched sculptor Simon Rodia build his now famous Watts Tower out of the accumulated junk,... Read full biography
Betye Saar, sculptor and installation artist, was born in Los Angeles, California in 1926. She received a B.A. degree (not in art) from UCLA in 1949, and an M.A. degree in graphic design from California State University, Long Beach in 1960. Then, deciding to be an artist, she returned to college at age thirty-four, and had another art experience more formative of her artistic vision. As a child, she watched sculptor Simon Rodia build his now famous Watts Tower out of the accumulated junk, refuse and debris of his environment. This fascinating, inventive and nearly mystical experience, combined with her discovery of the boxes of Joseph Cornell in the 1960s, inspired Saar in her own search for an art of constructed, gathered objects. Rather... Read full biography
Betye Saar, sculptor and installation artist, was born in Los Angeles, California in 1926. She received a B.A. degree (not in art) from UCLA in 1949, and an M.A. degree in graphic design from California State University, Long Beach in 1960. Then, deciding to be an artist, she returned to college at age thirty-four, and had another art experience more formative of her artistic vision. As a child, she watched sculptor Simon Rodia build his now famous Watts Tower out of the accumulated junk, refuse and debris of his environment. This fascinating, inventive and nearly mystical experience, combined with her discovery of the boxes of Joseph Cornell in the 1960s, inspired Saar in her own search for an art of constructed, gathered objects. Rather than someone simply engaged in the exploration of aesthetic processes and formulations like so many contemporary artists, Saar gives the... Read full biography
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New York, North Carolina. 1907 - 1977
Abstract expressionist painting, portraits, lithography, murals
District Of Columbia. 1891 - 1978
Non objective-optical imagery painting, teaching
New York, California. 1924 - 2024
Modernist landscape-imagery
New York. 1914 - 2005
African-American figure, political genre
Georgia, New York / France. 1900 - 1980
Southern poverty images-paintings and history murals
New York, California, Mississippi / Jamaica. 1901 - 1989
Expresssionist monument and figure sculpture
New York, Georgia. 1930 - 2006
Ethnic genre painting, abstraction, collage
Michigan, New York. 1935 - 2005
Geometric abstract painting, collage reliefs
Ohio, New Jersey, Florida, New Mexico. 1915 - 1999
Figure in desolate landscape painting, surrealism, teaching
District Of Columbia, Massachusetts / Haiti. 1905 - 1998
African figure-genre, landscape, still life and mask painting, teaching
New York. 1909 - 1979
Non objective, ethnic genre-view painting
New York. 1929 - 2003
Mod urban-ethnic imagery, etching
Illinois, New York, California. 1918 - 1979
Black-American figure and genre and mural painting
Illinois, Louisiana. 1917 - 2010
Linocut prints, modernist still life, figure and genre painting, teaching
Massachusetts / Russian Federation. 1921 - 2007
Modernist genre and figure painting, drawing, commercial art, printmaking
District Of Columbia, New York / Mexico. 1915 - 2012
Abstract sculpture, modernist figure and portrait painting, graphics
New York, Tennessee / Denmark. 1920 - 1998
Black child figures playing, landscape, genre, animal, fowl painting, woodcuts
California, New Mexico. 1919 - 2009
Hard edge painting, abstraction
Tennessee, New York / France. 1901 - 1979
Lyrical abstract painting, city scenes-jazz
Arizona, California. 1925 - 2009
Mod satire-genre, crowds-objects
Rhode Island, New York. 1917 - 2005
Textile print design, abstract expressionism, figure and portrait painting
California, North Carolina. 1933 - 2021
Sculpture-installation
California, Louisiana. 1925 - 2015
Afro-American figurative and landscape painting, art collecting
District Of Columbia, Kentucky. 1933 - 2022
Abstract color field and drape painting, collage, graphics
Virginia, Texas. 1924 - 2001
Narrative mural painting-African-American subjects
Kentucky, New York, Massachusetts / Italy. 1937 - 1966
Figurative expressionist painting, religion
California. 1912 - 2003
Surreal imagery-spirals, female figure
Massachusetts. 1939 - 2012
Modernist figure, portrait and street scene painting, teaching
New York, Tennessee. 1904 - 1991
Street genre, figure, portrait, mural
New York, California. Born 1956
Mod figure, collage, assemblage
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Brunswick / Canada. 1828 - 1901
Idealized landscape, marine, portrait and still life painting