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Agnes Sims

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Agnes C. Sims (1910 - 1990) was active/lived in New Mexico.  Agnes Sims is known for Abstraction-petroglyphic, sculpture.

Agnes C. Sims (1910-1990)

"Agi" Sims is known for paintings and sculptures inspired by prehistoric rock art of New Mexico.

Born in Devon, Pennsylvania, Sims attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and the Philadelphia School of Design for Women.  She managed a traveling marionette theater before establishing herself as a textile and needlework designer in Philadelphia.

After a visit to New Mexico in 1938, Sims returned to Philadelphia, packed her belongings, and returned to make Santa Fe her permanent home.  She opened a classical record store in an eighteenth-century farmhouse on Canyon Road, but the shortage of shellac during the War put her out of business.  Sims then became a building contractor (skills taught her by her contractor father), purchasing and renovating historic houses around Santa Fe.  She later bought a nineteenth-century house with acreage on Canyon Road and built a compound including a house for herself and one for her   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3851 characters.]  Artist bio

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.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Agnes Sims available:    Albert Herman Schmidt,  Helmuth Naumer,  Alfred Gwynne Morang,  Frank Guy Applegate,  William Thomas Lumpkins,  Thomas Benrimo,  Agnes Gabrielle (McNulty) Tait,  Dorothy Eugenie Brett,  Ford Ruthling,  Willard Ayer Nash,  Gary Schildt,  Bettina Steinke,  Ned Jacob,  Jozef Bakos,  Ross Stefan,  Ila McAfee,  Dorothy Alden Morang,  Gene Kloss,  Charles Berninghaus,  Morris Rippel,  Frank Reed Whiteside,  Frank Paul Sauerwein,  Ray Swanson,  Joseph Imhof



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8 Book References for Agnes Sims
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1973 Collins, Jim L. Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present 426 No
1959 Wenzell, C R Artists of Santa Fe: Their Works and Words 50 No
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