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Bessie Lasky

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Bessie Mona Ginsburg Lasky (1888 - 1972) was active/lived in California, New York, Massachusetts.  Bessie Lasky is known for Mission landscape and still life painting, poetry, music.

A painter, born in Boston, MA on April 30, 1888, Bessie Ginsberg was educated in the public schools of Boston and studied at the New England Conservatory of Music. In 1925 she began her art studies with William Silva and Felicie Waldo Howell.

She was active in New York City until the late 1920s; she then settled in Los Angeles with her husband, Jesse L. Lasky, a motion picture magnate.

A poet as well as painter and musician, her book of poems entitled Songs of the Twilight was published in 1935.  She is best known for her series of California mission paintings.

She died in Los Angeles on Aug. 17, 1972.

Member: NatI Assn of Women Painters & Sculptors; North Shore AA; New Haven Print & Clay Club; AFA; Women Painters of the West. Exh: Gumps (SF), 1930, 1939; Oakland Art Gallery, 1933 (solo); LACMA, 1933, 1941, 1966; Stendahl Gallery (LA), 1934, 1936; Ebell Club (LA), 1934; The Gallery (Palm Springs), 1967.

In: Newark Museum. AAA

Source: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"


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15 Book References for Bessie Lasky
Year Author Title Pages Color
2015 St. Gaudens, Maurine (Editor) Emerging from the Shadows: Volume Three, (L-R) A Survey Of Women Artists Working in California, 1860-1960 304 Yes
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
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.		 1249 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Kovinick, Phil; Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West 405 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 622 No
1989 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California, 1786-1940 637 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 851 No
1984 Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall Southern California Art Publication 3, Dictionary 291 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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