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_______________ (1800 - 1900) American painter, muralist born in Anytown, South Carolina.[1][2]
Education edit
She [2] attended Columbia College|_______________[2] in Columbia, South Carolina before moving to Washington D.C.[2] where she enrolled in the ________________. From there she went to the _______________ in New York City where she studied with [[___________________]] and at the National Academy of Design_______________ with [[______________________]]. She then moved to Paris where she studied with [[____________]] and [[____]] and to Munich where she studied under [[___________________]]. After close to a decade in Europe she returned to the United States in 1935.[3] [4]
Mural edit
In 1942[2] she painted a Federal Art Project mural in the US Post Office in Camilla, Georgia entitled Dem der Darkies. [5]
The South edit
Later in life she returned to South Carolina and following that move the state and its people became the major theme in her work. She stated, "the South has been sung in song, literature, prose, and poetry, but the portrayal of the South in painting has not been successfully done as yet. I seek to put the poetry and history of the South in paint, but with vigor and creativeness and not sentimentalism." [6]
References edit
- ^ Lester, Patrick D., The Biographical Directory of Native American Painters, SIR Publications, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 9780806199369, 701 pages, First edition, 1995
- ^ a b c d e Lester, Patrick D. (1995). The Biographical Directory of Native American Painters (First ed.). Tulsa, Oklahoma: SIR Publications. p. 701. ISBN 0806199369.
{{cite book}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986
- ^ Petteys, Chris, “Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women ratites born before 1900”, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1985
- ^ Park, Marlene and Gerald E. Markowitz, Democratic vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal, Temple University Press, Philadelphia 1984
- ^ "Laura Glenn Douglas - Bio". phillipscollection.org. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
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