Artist Keywords
Virginia Tillou

Virginia Tillou (1906 - 1995) was active/lived in New York.  Virginia Tillou is known for Portrait, still life, abstract and mural painting.

Virginia Tillou (nee Eller) was born in Centerville, Pennsylvania and was raised in Buffalo. In the late 1920s she studied at the Buffalo Fine
Arts Academy and the Provincetown Summer School of Art in Massachusetts. Her teachers included Edwin Dickinson, Dr. William
Hekking, and Seymour Drumlevitch.

She formed a loose artistic association with a Buffalo-based group who called themselves the Oakland Artists. The group included
Charlotte Albright, Grace McKendry, Nancy Jewett, and Elizabeth Tower.

Tillou exhibited several times at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, and in 1985 was honored with a one-woman show at the Burchfield Art
Center (now the Burchfield-Penney Art Center).

Books:

1985
Author: J. Benjamin Townsend
Title: Tabletops and Portraits
Burchfield Art Center, May 19-July 7, 1985 (Exhibition catalog)
Color - 26 pages

Source: "The Indomitable Mrs. Tillou" by Dean Brownrout (http://
artvoice.com/issues/v7   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1011 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Virginia Tillou


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
  • Fresco Painting, Murals
Art StyleArt Subject
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Portraits, Portraiture
  • Still Life
Art Association
  • Patteran Society of Artists, Buffalo, New York
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Abstraction Specialty
  • Mural Specialty

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