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Betty (Elizabeth) Abrahams Woodman

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Betty (Elizabeth) Abrahams Woodman (1930 - 2018) was active/lived in New York, Colorado / Italy.  Betty Woodman is known for Cylindrical vase ceramic sculptures, installations.

"Betty Woodman, Who Spun Pottery Into Multimedia Art, Dies at 87," by Richard Sandomir, January 5. 2018, Obituary, The New York Times

 
Betty Woodman, a sculptor who took an audacious turn when she began to transform traditional pottery, her usual medium, into innovative multimedia art, moving her work from kitchen cupboard shelves to museum walls, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. She was 87.

Her son, Charles, said the cause was pneumonia.

Ms. Woodman’s evolution from artisan to fine artist culminated in a retrospective in 2006 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, its first for a living female artist.

“I am coming out of left field,” she told The New York Times when the exhibition opened. “They don’t know what they’ve got hold of.”

One of the 70 works in the show, The Ming Sisters, is a nearly three-foot-high triptych of cylindrical vases arranged side by side — each with irregular, winged cutouts — that depict Asian women in g   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9026 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Betty (Elizabeth) Abrahams Woodman

   Publications  Book References:  7
Magazine References:  9

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9 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Betty (Elizabeth) Abrahams Woodman
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art in America Woodman's Decorative Impulse November 2006 Duncan, Michael Yes
Art & Antiques A Singular Duality: Today's Masters October 2006 Jacobs, Joseph Yes
ARTFORUM Preview May 2006 Editors Yes
Art in America Tracking Patterns February 2004 Miles, Christopher Yes
Art & Antiques Gallery Watch September 2003 Editor, Art & Antiques Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions November 2001 Editors, Art in America Yes
American Art Review Women Artists in Colorado April 2001 Smith-Warren, Katharine Yes
Art & Antiques Art on the Move January 2000 Simon, Jordan Yes
Art & Antiques Next of Kiln January 1997 Chambers, Karen Yes
7 Book References for Betty (Elizabeth) Abrahams Woodman
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
2005 Elizabeth Schlosser Modern Clay in Denver (1948-1972) Twelve Ceramic Artists 93 Yes
2004 McGowan, Alison C (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition) 1512 No
2000 Smith-Warren, Katharine Time and Place: One Hundred Years of Women Artists in Colorado 56 Yes
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary 612 No
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
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