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Ethel Magafan: American Muralist and Painter of Abstract Western Landscapes
Jenne (left) and Ethel (right) Magafanca. n.d.Ethel Magafan and her sister Jenne were identical twins, born in Chicago, Illinois in 1915 to Petros Magafan, a Greek immigrant father and Julia (Bronick)...
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Waldine Tauch: American Sculptress
Waldine Amanda Tauch at workThe Tauch Family. Standing: Emma (left) and WaldineCourtesy Fayette Heritage Museum & ArchivesWaldine Amanda Tauch was born on January 28, 1892, in Schulenberg, Texas,...
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Anna A. Hills: California Impressionist
Anna Althea HillsAnna Althea Hills was a renowned plein-air artist, community activist, and a key founder of the Laguna Art Museum. Hills was a six-term president of the Laguna Beach Art Association...
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Abby Tyler Oakes: One of the First!
Abby Tyler OaksAcross the Valleyc 1854Oil on canvas17 3/4 x 24 inchesAccording to a simply marvelous book entitled "An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West"by Phil Kovinick and Marian...
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Eliza Barchus: Northwest American Landscape Painter
Eliza R. Barchus1857-1959It's been a while since my last post-I retired from teaching and moved to Portland, Oregon for a year of adventure and exploration so, meet Eliza Barchus, a native Oregonian...
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Doris Totten Chase: Experiemental Artist in Motion
Doris ChaseApril 1923-December 2008Doris Totten Chase was an American artist whose career spanned 55 years of innovation and experimentation, using a wide array of media that included painting,...
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Alice Brown Hamlin Chittenden: California Botanicals
To close out 2018, a year of change and upheaval for many of us, I've chosen a painter who created lovely portraits and landscapes, but who was best known for her spectacular collection of paintings...
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Ruth Harriet Louise: The First Female Photographer in Hollywood
Ruth Harriet LouiseSelf-portraitRuth Harriet Louise was an American professional photographer and the first female photographer active in Hollywood. When Ms. Louise joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, dubbed...
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Pansy Cornelia Stockton: The Art of Assemblage
Pansy Stocktonat work in her studioThis woman's vision was unique! Pansy Stockton created three-dimensional art pieces using hundreds of varieties of items from nature such as bark, moss, grass, and...
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Dora Tse-Pe: Traditional Tewa Potter
One of the artists I explored for my dissertation was potter Maria Martinez, a Tewa Native American Puebloan who lived at the San Ildefonso Pueblo in New Mexico. She, and husband Julian, resurrected...
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Thelma Beatrice Johnson Streat: Fostered Intercultural Understanding
Thelma Johnson Streat1912-1959Thelma Johnson Streat was an African-American artist, dancer, and educator who gained renown during the 1940s. A multi-talented artist who worked in a variety of media,...
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Henrietta S. Quincy: Painter, Musician and Botanist
Relatively few women artists of any importance were active in many regions of the West during the 1850s and 1860s. Travel was long and arduous and it was not safe, nor culturally acceptable, for a...
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Sophie Marston Brannan: Artist Coast to Coast
Sophie Marston BrannanHouse Near Stream and BridgeEarly 20th CenturyOil on canvas8 x 10 inchesSophie Pike Marston Marston Brannan was an American artist born in Mountain View California in 1877, and...
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Augusta Savage: Sculptor, Instructor, Activist, Inspiration
In light of the incredibly challenging times in which we are living, the Arts sustain us. Artists interpret, create, and provide hope for a somber world that seeks light. Augusta Savage was a woman who...
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Gene Kloss: Painter and Printmaker of the American West
Alice Geneva (Gene) Glasier Kloss was born in Oakland, California and attended the local public schools. Determined to have a career in art, Kloss studied at the University of California, Berkeley, in...
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Dr. Viki found her Muse
Since I am a woman artist out west, I felt it's time for an update. This blog has been chugging along remarkably (sometimes with little help from me) since 2012! In the ensuing years, I wrote a 600...
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Mary Ann Lehman: Etcher of Western Scenes
Mary Ann LehmanQuiet Crow CampEtchingn.d.2x10 inchesMary Ann Lehman was an American Western artist born near Spokane, Washington in 1920. She was best known for her etchings of horses and Western...
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Elizabeth W. Withington: Shadowcatcher
Elizabeth W. WithingtonPhotography is easily one of the most significant technological inventions in modern times and yet, there still exists a general impression that it is, and has always been,...
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Shirley Ximena Hopper Russell: Painter and Printmaker of Hawaii
Shirley Marie RussellUntitled (Hawaiian Hut nestled in lush valley with palm trees)ca 1938Oil on canvasDuring the early twentieth century, there was a group of artists known as The Seven, a coalition...
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Juliette May Fraser: Painter, Muralist, Printmaker of Hawaii
The story of women artists in Hawai‘i begins well before and beyond The Seven’s two-year existence. As early as 1880, Helen Whitney Kelley and Helen Thomas Dranga began turning out beloved...
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Madge Tennent: Fueled the advent of Hawaiian Modernism
Madge TennentHailed as "the most significant individual contributor to Hawaiian art in the 20th century" and "without question the greatest interpreter of the Hawaiian figure," Madge Tennent...
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Genevieve "Gene" Springston Lynch: One of The Seven
Genevieve Springston Lynchc. 1912The Seven was a coalition of Honolulu-based women artists who first exhibited together in 1929. Several of the group’s inaugural members — Juliette May Fraser,...
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Juanita Judy Vitousek: Watercolorist of the Islands
Born in Silverton, Oregon, Juanita Judy Vitousek (1892-1988) lived in California as a youngster and studied at the University of California. After graduation, she moved to Hawaiʻi from Healdsburg, in...
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Mildred Bryant Brooks: Etcher Extraordinaire
Mildred Bryant Brooks1901-1995Mildred Bryant Brooks, printmaker, teacher and lecturer, was born in Marysville, Missouri on July 21, 1901. Her father, J. Jay Brooks was president of Tri-State College...
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Mary Colter: Innovative Architect and Designer
Mary Colter1869-1958Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter was an architect and designer, one of the very few female architects in her day. She was also the chief architectural designer and interior decorator for...
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