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| Born in Berkeley, CA on Aug. 10, 1901, Beth MacLafferty was a resident of Berkeley during the 1920s and 1930s. A graduate of the University of California, she was the pupil of Perham Nahl, Ray Boynton, Hans Hofmann, Chiura Obata, and Karl Neuhaus.
During the Depression years of the 1930s, she worked in El Paso, Texas and did a mural in a government building. She also did industrial scene lithographs of El Paso, which were placed in the public schools as part of the WPA program.
The wife of Frank O. Blake, she had moved to Phoenix, Arizona by 1940, and was art director of the Jokake School. She exhibited with the Phoenix Fine Arts Association, winning awards in 1925 and 1928, and also exhibited work in Flagstaff at the Museum of Northern Arizona, receiving honorable mentions in 1932 and 1933.
Memberships included the National Association of Women Painters & Sculptors,
Taos Society of Artists and the Phoenix Fine Arts Association
In the later part of her life, she returned to California where she died in Oakland on December 31, 1993.
Sources:
John and Deborah Powers, Texas Painters, Sculptors and Graphic Artists
Edan Hughes, Artists in California Before 1940
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
| Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
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