- Fannie Hillsmith
Fannie Hillsmith (1911 –
July 27 ,2007 ) was an Americancubist painter.Personal life
Fannie Hillsmith was born in
Boston ,Massachusetts in 1911. cite news |first=Roberta|last=Smith|title= Fannie Hillsmith, Distinctly American Cubist, Dies at 96 |url= http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/04/arts/design/04hillsmith.html?ex=1343880000&en=e18906a4ef5eb58f&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss|work=New York Times |publisher= |date=2007-08-04 |accessdate=2007-08-19 ] Her grandfather was a painter, as well as one of the founders of theBoston Museum School . Hillsmith would attend in the Boston Museum School for four years.Hillsmith married Gordon Welchman in 1958. The couple divorced in 1970.
Career
Hillsmith moved from
Boston toNew York City in 1934. Once in New York, she took an interest invanguard art through her studies and gradually developed an abstract style. Hillsmith studied under such teachers asWilliam Zorach andYasuo Kuniyoshi for one year while at the Art Students League. She went on to study atNew York University at theA. E. Gallatin Collection .Fannie Hillsmith held her first
art show in New York at theNorlyst Gallery , owned byJimmy Ernst , in 1943. She also displayed her work in three shows at the Art of This Century Gallery in Manhattan, which was owned byPeggy Guggenheim . She also exhibited at a series of shows at thePeridot Gallery and theCharles Egan Galler y during the 1950s and 1960s.Hillsmith began working at
Atelier 17 , which was a intaglio printmaking workshop owned byStanley William Hayter , in 1946. She worked at Aterlier alongside noted artists such asYves Tanguy ,Miró andJacques Lipchitz . Hillsmith also taught briefly atBlack Mountain College , located inAsheville, North Carolina .Hillmsith's style of
Cubism combined traditional Cubistmotifs with what she called "an early American feeling." She was influenced by such painters asPicasso ,Gris and Miró, according to "The New York Times ". Her most famous painting was the "Molasses Jug," anoil painting completed in 1949.Fannie Hillsmith actively painted Cubist art for nearly sixty years. She had been represented by an
art gallery inManhattan 's SoHo neighborhood since 1990. She continued painting every day until January 2007.Hillsmith died in her sleep at her home in
Jaffrey, New Hampshire onJuly 27 ,2007 .References
*citation
first1 = Doris A.
last1 = Birmingham
authorlink1 = Doris A. Birmingham
first2 = Robert M.
last2 = Doty
authorlink2 = Robert M. Doty
title = Fannie Hillsmith
publisher =Currier Gallery of Art
location = Manchester, N.H.
year = 1987
oclc = 18194962Persondata
NAME=Hillsmith, Fannie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=American Cubist painter.
DATE OF BIRTH=1911
PLACE OF BIRTH=Boston ,Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH=July 27 ,2007
PLACE OF DEATH=Jaffrey,New Hampshire
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