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| A painter, wood engraver and art educator, Jane Dunning Baldwin, married to Warren Baldwin, was
born in Spokane, Washington on August 3, 1908 and spent most of her
career there. She was an instructor at Washington State College
where she had also studied with Glenn Wessels and George Laisner.
Jane
Baldwin was a member of the Washington Art Association, the Spokane Art
Association and from 1938 to 1942, participated in the Spokane Federal
Art Project of the WPA (Works Progress Administration).
She was married to Warren Nelson Baldwin. She died in Spokane on March 29, 1991.
In
1989, an exhibition of her prints was held at the Cheney Cowles Museum
in Spokane. In 2005, her work was part of an exhibition held at the
Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon, titled Northwest Masters: Forgotten Prints from 1915 to 1945.
Sources include:
Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art
Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki Kovinick, An Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
Michael Gold, Message to AskART about the Portland, Oregon exhibition
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Jane Baldwin spent her entire life in Spokane where her work grew and
evolved over many decades in the arts. Working in several
mediums, her reputation rests on the superb wood-cuts of the 1930's and
1940's depicting the scenes of everyday life in and around Spokane.
Her art training was completed at Washington State College where she
studied with George Laisner and Glen Wessels, a protégé of Hans Hoffman.
Most of the paintings that she executed during her early years are in
watercolor or other water-based materials such as gouache and tempera
which were favored by many other Northwest artists of this period.
Around the mid-1940's, her work started incorporating the ideas and
techniques of European Modernism. As she experimented, her work became
increasingly abstract although still retaining some form of figurative
element.
Jane Baldwin had exhibited nationally at institutions such as the
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia Print Club, Library of
Congress, San Francisco Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum, Portland Art
Museum, Wichita Art Museum, Laguna Beach Art Association, Denver Art
Museum and the Oakland Art Museum.
A representative collection of her work can be seen at the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture in Spokane.
Researched and submitted by David Martin of Martin-Zambito Fine Art, Seattle WA
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