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Elizabeth Olds

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Elizabeth Olds (1896 - 1991) was active/lived in New York, Florida.  Elizabeth Olds is known for Lithograph and silk-screen arts, Depression-era themes.

Best known for her lithographs addressing social issues, Elizabeth Olds was committed to the idea that art is democratic and should be within the intellectual and physical reach of all the people. She was also an artist in residence at the Yaddo and McDowell artist's colonies, lived on Long Island and moved to Florida in 1971.

She lived to the age of ninety-five and was born in Minneapolis and attended the School of Art there. Then she won a scholarship to the Art Students League in New York City, where she stayed three years and was much under the influence of her teacher, George Luks, and other Social Realists.

In 1925, she went to Europe and the next year became the first woman to win a Guggenheim Fellowship, which she used to study in Europe and stayed four years. In 1929, she returned to the United States and found her primary subject matter in Depression Era Omaha, Nebraska. In her lithographs of this subject, she depicted the ugly side of the stockyards--the slaug   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1825 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Elizabeth Olds


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Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Children's Book, Juvenile Literature Illustration
  • Collage and/or Decoupage
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Illustration, Illustrator
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Animals, Mammals
  • Black, African Culture, Figure, Genre, Civil Rights
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Social Commentary, Cultural Issues, Political, Racial Views
  • Social Realism
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Long Island, New York
  • Nebraska Before 1945
Art Teacher
  • George Luks
  • Robert Henri
Art School
  • Art Students League of New York, Student
  • Kansas City Art Institute, Student
  • Minneapolis School of Fine Art, College Art & Design, Student
Awards/Recognition
  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
  • Yaddo Resident Artist
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Genre Specialty
  • Post Office Mural Painter, WPA Treasury Relief Art Project
  • WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Exhibition of Museum
  • Brooklyn Museum of Art
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art

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