Janet Lippincott
(1918 - 2007)
Janet Lippincott was active/lived in New Mexico. Janet Lippincott is known for abstract landscape, interiors and figure painting.
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Biography Janet Lippincott
Janet Lippincott was born in 1918 to a family of privilege in New York
City. Her Aunt Gertrude Lippincott, a modern dancer, took her to
museums, and when Lippincott saw her first Picasso she was turned on to
modern art. Her family lived in Paris during her childhood which
was another influence on her art.
When Lippincott was age 15,
her mother, on the suggestion of a friend, enrolled her at the Art
Students League in a life drawing class. Thinking it was a course
in nature drawing, Lippincott was taken back when a male nude entered
the class. She left the room and sat in the park but did return
to the class when a female nude was the subject.
The artist
graduated from the Todhunter School, a
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