Nell Blaine

Nell Blaine

Nell Blair Walden Blaine (July 10, 1922 Richmond, Virginia - November 14, 1996 New York City) was an American landscape painter and watercolorist.[1]

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Life

She studied at the Richmond School of Art. She moved to New York City in 1942, to study painting with Hans Hofmann. In 1943, she was the youngest member of the American Abstract Artists group. In 1945, she studied with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17.

She showed at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery starting in 1953.

She contracted polio in 1959 on Mykonos Island.[2] She used a wheelchair the rest of her life, but rehabilitated the use of her hands to paint.

Her papers are held at Harvard University.[3]

Collections

Her work is in the collections of: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Brooklyn Museum, National Academy of Design, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Rose Art Museum, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and Museum of Contemporary Art.[4]

Exhibitions

2007
  • "Nell Blaine: Image and Abstraction, Paintings and Drawings 1944-1959," Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
2004
  • "Nell Blaine: Selected Works," Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
2003
  • "Artist in the World: Work from the 1950s," Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York[5]
  • "Nell Blaine: Abstract Paintings and Works on Paper," Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • "Nell Blaine/ Theresa Pollak," Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA

Sources

Referencnes

  1. ^ Roberta Smith (November 15, 1996 work=The New York Times). "Nell Blaine, 74, Painter Who Blended Styles". http://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/15/arts/nell-blaine-74-painter-who-blended-styles.html. 
  2. ^ "Nell Blaine", Martica Sawin, Woman's Art Journal, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring - Summer, 1982), pp. 35-39
  3. ^ http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou02037
  4. ^ http://www.centerstreetstudio.com/artist_pages/nell_blaine.html
  5. ^ http://www.tibordenagy.com/artists/nell-blaine/

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