Joan Erbe

Joan Erbe (born 1926; married name, Joan Erbe Udel) is a Baltimore painter and sculptor. She is best known for a surrealist style using bright colors and has been called "The Grand Duchess of Baltimore Painters" (Rebecca Hoffberger quoted in Ned Oldham, "The Bird," "Baltimore Magazine", December 2001, p. 120). She received her training at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she was a student of Leonard Bahr and Louis Bouché.

She has had over 60 individual art shows, at venues including:

The Baltimore Museum of Art,The Butler Institute of American Art,
Goucher College,
The Johns Hopkins University,
The Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.),
Philadelphia Art Alliance,
Salpeter Gallery (New York City),
St. John's College (Annapolis, MD),
The University of Maryland, and
I.F. A. Gallery (Washington, DC).

Recent shows include: "Joan Erbe," NYE Gomez Gallery (Baltimore, Maryland), November 9-December 7, 1991; "Joan Erbe: Harpies, Humans and Others," NYE Gomez Gallery, March 20-April 17, 1993; and "Joan Erbe," Gomez Gallery, August 9-September 7, 1997.

References

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