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from Auction House Records.
Music of the Jaguar
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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Biography from AskART:
| Abstract painter, lithographer and feminist, Alice Baber specialized in
paintings of ovals, circles and free-forms that extolled the radiance
of color. Born August 22, 1928 in Charleston, Illinois, the
artist was dogged by ill-health as a child, forced to spend her winters
in Florida to escape the harsh northern winters. Cancer would
claim her on October 2, 1982 in New York City at the relatively young
age of fifty-four. She is buried in Fairview Cemetery in Edgar
County, Illinois.
But she began her art studies early, as if
to compensate for a shortened life, studying drawing as an
eight-year-old, and taking a college class by age twelve. She
attended Lindenwood College in Missouri for two years, then studied
with Alton Pickens, a figurative expressionist painter, at Indiana
University in Bloomington. She received her M.A. degree there
in1951.
Travel was an important activity for Baber in the early
1950s, during her marriage from 1964-1970 to abstract painter Paul
Jenkins, and throughout her life. In 1951, she studied at the
Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Fontainebleau, France, and traveled through
Europe. In 1958, she began a several-year period of living in
Paris. In 1964, Baber and Jenkins visited Japan for their show at
the Osaka Pinacotheca Museum.
Baber visited India twice in the
1970s. In 1974, she had a one-person exhibition in New Delhi, the
same year she traveled to Iran for a show in Teheran. In 1976,
she traveled to thirteen Latin American countries, lecturing and
exhibiting, on a four-month tour sponsored by the United States
Information Agency.
In the early 1950s, Baber went to live in
New York City, where she became a member of a Tenth Street co-operative
gallery, the March Gallery, where she had her first one-person show in
1958. She attended the Yaddo Colony in Saratoga Springs, New York
for the first time in that year. She was supporting herself by
writing, later becoming art editor of McCall's magazine.
Baber
organized exhibitions of women artists, including "Color Forum," in
1972 at the University of Texas, in Austin, and "Color, Light, and
Image," in 1975 in New York City at the Women's Interart Center, a show
of artists from around the world in recognition of the United Nations
International Women's Year. Baber wrote an essay for the
catalogue of the Texas show. Phyllis Derfner covered the latter
exhibition in the March-April, 1976 issue of Art International.
Baber
was a writer and teacher, as well as an artist, serving as
artist-in-residence in Albuquerque at the University of New Mexico's
Tamarind Institute lithography workshop. She taught painting at
the New School, New York City; University of California at Santa
Barbara, and University of California, Berkeley. Her stain
paintings, different from but related to those of Paul Jenkins,
explored both variations of a single color and rich combinations of
multiple colors.
Several Alice Baber paintings form the nucleus
of the Baber Midwest Modern Art Collection of the Greater Lafayette
Museum of Art in Indiana. In East Hampton, Long Island, New York,
the Guild Hall Museum established the Alice Baber Memorial Art Library.
Her
work is in the collections of four major New York City museums, the
Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum
of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art; and in Washington, D.C., the
Corcoran Gallery of Art and National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Other collections with her work are museums in New Delhi, India;
Manchester, England; Amsterdam, Holland; Osaka, Japan; Israel; Austria;
Cologne, Germany, and San Francisco and Santa Barbara, California.
Other articles about Alice Baber include:
James Jones, "The Tragedy of Color," Studio International, September 1965
Norton T. Dodge, Alice Baber: Color, Light and Image, a catalog, St. Mary's City, Maryland, 1977
Ann McCoy, "Alice Baber: Light as Subject," Art International, September-October 1980
Sylvia Moore, "Alice Baber," Woman's Art Journal, Spring-Summer 1982
Alexandra de Lallier, "The Watercolors of Alice Baber," Woman's Art Journal, Spring-Summer 1982.
Source:
Jules and Nancy Heller, North American Women Artists of the 20th Century
and
http://www.baberfamilytree.org/historian/alice_baber.htm
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