(from an artist supplied information sheet)
Exhibits
Sal
Muller in Buenos Aries 1950; Selected Artists Galleries 1962; Vassar
College 1963; Everhart Museum 1963;Galerie Bellechasse 1963;French
Partridas Gallery 1964; Norfolk Museum 1965; Gibbes Art Gallery 1965
Holdings in 35 museums
Education : Vassar College
(from an exhibit catalog published by Frank Partridge Inc in 1964)
As
a child, Evelyn Metzger attended the drawing classes of George Bridgman
at the Art Students League in New York. After graduation from
Vassar College, she studied sculpture with Sally Farnham and painting
with George Grosz, Raphael Soyer and Umberto Romano. While in
South America where she lived for many years, she worked under Guzman
de Rojas in Bolivia and Demetrio Umuchua in Buenos Aires. She has
participated in numerous group shows in museums and galleries here and
abroad, and has held severla one-man shows, one recently in New York
and another in Paris.
Last year Vassar honored the artist
with a retrospective exhibition which reviewed the stages of her
development. Her early work reflected in some measure the
influence of her teachers, but was never without a distinct personal
flavor. The cubist and abstract periods followed. The first
served as a valuable discipline; the second played a vital role in
releasing her imaginative powers.
The present exhibition,
devoted entirey to recent works, presents the fruits of the painter's
artistic maturity. In addition to the brilliant landscapes and
flower pieces, of the sort that drew enthusiastic praise from the
critics, this current group includes studies of the human face and
figure, a subject that played a major role in her early phases and to
which she now returns in full command of her uniquely personal idiom.
Holdings
: Norfolk Musuem of Arts and Sciences; Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego;
Texas Technological College; The Evansville Museum of Arts and
Sciences; George Museum of Fine Arts; University of Missouri; Mills
College Art Gallery; Grand Rapids Art Gallery; Arizona State Museum;
The Art Center of a Jolla; Art Museum of Richmond; Menninger
Foundation; Vassar College Art Gallery; Columbia University; Denver Art
Museum; Robert Hull Fleming Museum; Philbrook Academy of Art; Everhart
Museum; Sheldon Swope Art Gallery; Phoenix Art Museum; Birmingham
Museum of Art; Museum of International Folk Art of New Mexico; Joe and
Emily Lowe Art Gallery at University of Miami; Albion College. |