- Alice Baber
Alice Baber (
August 22 ,1928 -October 2 ,1982 ) was an American abstractexpressionist painter who worked in oils and watercolor.Alice was born in
Charleston, Illinois . She grew up inKansas, Illinois andMiami, Florida , her family traveled south toFlorida yearly because of Alice poor health. They settled inIllinois whenWorld War II started. She was interested in becoming an artist from an early age and choose to study art when she attendedLindenwood College for Women inMissouri and at Indiana University. She also studied at theEcole des Beaux-Arts and lived inParis throughout the late 1950s and 1960s. She was briefly married to painterPaul Jenkins , the union lasted from 1964 to 1968.The Baber Midwest Modern Art Collection of the
Greater Lafayette Museum of Art inIndiana and theAlice Baber Memorial Art Library inEast Hampton are both named in her honor. Numerous major galleries in the United States own her works including the Guggenheim, Whitney, Metropolitan, and theMuseum of Modern Art .References
*Smithsonian Archives of American Art. [http://www.aaa.si.edu/oralhist/baber73.htm Interview with Alice Baber Conducted by Paul Cummings,
May 24 , 1973]
*Baber Family Tree. [http://www.baberfamilytree.org/historian/alice_baber.htm Alice Baber]
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