Alice Baber
Alice Baber (born August 22, 1928 in Charleston , Illinois , † October 2, 1982 in New York ) was an American painter . Alice Baber's works are assigned to abstract expressionism .
Alice Baber was interested in painting from an early age, especially in the representation of light and research into the effects of color. When she entered Lindenwood College in 1946, she decided to study art, which she also took to the École des Beaux-Arts in Fontainebleau in 1951 . Between 1959 and 1962 she was based in Paris , with several extensive trips through Europe , then moved to Osaka , Alice Baber returned to the USA in the early 1970s , although she made frequent trips, especially to Europe.
Her main work is dominated by abstract , oval colored surfaces, which due to their delicacy and transparency seem to float weightlessly through the room and at the same time create the effect of dynamic movement. According to their creator, the colored surfaces represent the result of a metamorphosis of their earlier figurative representations ( still lifes , gardens of paradise, etc.) into abstract "light surfaces".
Alice Baber was married to the American painter Paul Jenkins .
plant
- Burning Boundary , 1963, National Museum of Women in the Arts Washington DC
- Journeying Blue , 1966, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Tree of Life , 1970, Museum Ludwig , Cologne
- Lavender Ladder to the sun , 1976, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- The Path of the Gray Falcon of the Dawn , 1979, Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York
Further works are u. a. in the:
- National Museum, Jerusalem
- National Gallery of Modern Art , New Delhi
- Museum of Modern Art , New York
- Gutai Pinacotheca , Osaka
- National Museum of Women in the Arts , Washington DC
Individual evidence
- ^ National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
- ↑ Los Angeles County Museum of Art ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- ^ Metropolitan Museum of Art
- ^ Museum of Modern Art
- ↑ Jules Heller; Nancy Heller: North American women artists of the twentieth century: a biographical dictionary, Taylor & Francis, 1995, p. 43
- ^ Alice Baber in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
literature
- James Jones: Alice Baber and the tragedy of light , Studio international 170: 1965
- Colin Naylor: Contemporary artists , St James Press, 1977
Web links
- Oral history interview with Alice Baber, 1973 May 24, Smithsonian Archives of American Art
- Baber Family Tree: Alice Baber
- Paris Art Center: Gallery of Alice Baber paintings
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baber, Alice |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 22, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Charleston , Illinois, USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd October 1982 |
| Place of death | New York City , New York, USA |