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Vivian Springford

Vivian Springford (1914 - 2003) was active/lived in New York.  Vivian Springford is known for Portrait painting, illustration, abstract expressionism.

Vivian Springford was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and educated at the Spence School in New York City, and then the Art Students League. Born to a prominent family (her father was the former president and chairman of the board of Sevel, Inc, an early maker of refrigerators), she was pictured in The New York Times "Debutantes of the Winter Season in New York" in 1932.

Originally a portrait artist, she illustrated Albert Carr's 1938 book Juggernaut with portraits of twenty political dictators from the Napoleanic era to the early twentieth century. She was championed in the late 1950s by Howard DeVree, The New York Times art critic, and Harold Rosenberg helped Springford get her first show at Great Jones Gallery in 1960.

The show generated much excitement and was filmed in the movie Bowl of Cherries, in the film library of the Museum of Modern Art. Prominent collectors such as Leon Mnuchin purchased paintings from the exhibition.

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