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Birth
1896 (Chicago, Illinois)
Death
1989 (Winter Garden, Florida)
Lived/Active
Idaho/Florida
Often Known For
landscape, portrait, mural, wildlife
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Born and raised in Chicago, Joy Postle became a prolific artist with a career of more than seventy years painting landscapes, portraits and murals from studios in Idaho and Florida. Her landscapes included views of Southern Idaho, and in Florida, she painted in the national parks and did murals for hotels and banks including a restaurant mural in Beaumont, Texas and the Majestic Hotel in Lake Charles, Louisiana. In Florida, working over a period of thirty years, she did murals featuring birds and wildlife for restaurants, banks, shopping malls, colleges, hotels and entertainment centers. In her seventies, she did a western-snake painting commission for Fort Wilderness of Walt Disney World.
In Florida, Joy Postle was fascinated by the wildlife, especially the water birds, and one of her major artistic contributions was a "visual record of the birds and other wildlife of the state in watercolors, oils, and pen and in drawings" . . . (Kovinick 252). Using an idea of her husband's, she staged a "Glamour Birds" program, which involved sketching, singing, story telling and demonstrations. These performances occurred between 1940 and 1968, when he died.
She was the daughter of Oliver Postle, an architect, and Mary Brown Postle. She attended the Art Institute of Chicago as a student of Antonin Sterba and received honorable mentions for her paintings. In 1917, she move to Snake River Canyon in Southern Idaho, where she and her brother owned a ranch together. She painted, taught school and worked on the ranch until 1923, and then moved to Boise. There she was an interior designer and teacher at St. Margaret's School while continuing her painting.
In 1928, Joy Postle married Robert Blackstone, a newspaper reporter for the "Boise Statesman". From Boise, they took a three-year trip that led them to settle in Florida. From the 1940s to 1984, when she moved to a nursing home in Winter Garden, she lived in Orlando, completing a mural when she was age eighty for Orlando's Fashion Square Mall.
She died on June 1, 1989 in Winter Garden, Florida.
Source:
Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki Kovinick, "An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West" |
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