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Birth
1893 (Chicago, Illinois)
Death
1966 (Tucson, Arizona)
Lived/Active
Arizona/California / England
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etching, landscape, western and floral painting
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Born in Chicago, Illinois, Marylka Modjeska became an etcher and
painter of landscapes and florals as well as scenes of Poland and
Provincetown and western subjects. Early in her career she
focused on printmaking, and in 1933 added oil painting. Later she
began to work in watercolor, especially of flower subjects.
Modjeska
spent her childhood in Chicago, and attended Saturday art classes for
children at the Art Institute. She also took music and art
classes for five years in Walmer, England at the Roselands
School. Returning to Chicago, she took additional study at the
Art Institute from 1908 to 1909 and 1913 to 1915, and she studied
etching from George Senseney both in Chicago and Provincetown,
Massachusetts.
From 1918 to 1919, she took classes in New York
at the Art Students League with George Bridgman and then married Sidney
Pattison, an English professor at the University of Arizona in
Tucson. Later, in the 1920s, she went to France where she
attended the Academie Julian in Paris and studied etching with
Georges-Leo Degorce.
For most of the remainder of her life, she
lived in Tucson, but she traveled frequently, often crossing the
country in an automobile by herself as well as going to Europe and to
California where she studied with George Brandriff in Laguna
Beach. She also enjoyed mountain climbing.
Modjeska was also a talented musician, who taught piano classes and performed.
Exhibition
venues included the Provincetown Art Association, Chicago Society of
Etchers, the National Arts Club, and the Tucson Fine Arts Association.
Source:
Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick, Women Artists of the American West
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Born in Chicago, Illinois on January 22, 1893, Marylka Modjeska was the
daughter of Ralph Modjeska, designer of the Oakland-San Francisco Bay
Bridge, and granddaughter of actress Helen Modjeska.
She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago under George Senseney and
continued in Paris. About 1921, she married Sidney Pattison and
settled in Tucson, AZ. By the 1930s she was spending summers in
Corona del Mar, CA. While there, she studied with George Brandriff in
Laguna Beach.
She died in an auto accident in Tucson on July 8, 1966.
Exhibitions:
Phoenix Woman’s Club, 1929
Hatfield Gallery (LA), 1930
Laguna Beach AA, 1939
Laguna Beach Art Gallery, 1942. | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Who's Who in American Art 1936-62; Women Artists of the American West; Tucson Daily Citizen, 7-9-1966 (obituary). | | Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here. |
This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| From Ralph Modjeski Pattison, grandson of the artist:
Marylka
Modjeska moved to Tucson in 1920 after marrying my grandfather, Sidney
Pattison. He was a 43-year-old widower and head of the English
Department at the University of Arizona. They met the year before on a
hiking trip in California. The next year, my father was born; my
younger brother still lives in their house in Tucson.
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