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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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   Publications  Book References:  40
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3 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Elizabeth Olds
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Born of Fire August 2006 The Valley of Work Yes
American Art Review New Women Students of Robert Henri March 2005 Wardle, Marian Yes
Art & Antiques The Federal Art Project June 1996 Wallis, Stephen Yes
40 Book References for Elizabeth Olds
Year Author Title Pages Color
2012 Puschendorf, L. Robert Nebraska's Post Office Murals: Born of the Depression, Fostered by the New Deal 112 Yes
2006 Seaton, Elizabeth G. (Editor) Paths to the Press: Printmaking and American Women Artists, 1910-1960 (Beach Museum of Art)
(Exhibition catalog)		 261 Yes
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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 Marion Wardle and Stephanie American Women Modernists: The Legacy of Robert Henri 1910-1945 (Brigham Young University Museum of Art) 274 Yes
2000 McCoy, Garnett; B Reilly Jr. and Harry L. Katz, Editor Life of the People: Realist Prints and Drawings from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection, 1912 to 1948
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students) 187 No
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary 612 No
1994 Bailey, Brooke The Remarkable Lives Of 100 Women Artists 207 No
1990 Lang, Gladys & Kurt Etched, in Memory The Building and Survival of Artistic Reputation 437 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1987 Denoon, Christopher Posters of the WPA 175 Yes
1987 Williams, Dave & Reba American Screenprints 0 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 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
1985 University of Michigan Museum The Federal Art Project American Prints from the 1930s in the collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 220 No
1983 Contreras, Belasario R Tradition and Innovation in New Deal Art 253 No
1982 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present 560 Yes
1980 Doezema, Marianne American Realism and the Industrial Age
(Exhibition catalog)		 147 Yes
1977 Park, Marlene/Gerald Markowitz New Deal for Art: The Government Art Projects of the 1930s
(Exhibition catalog)		 172 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1976 Marling, Karal Ann 7 American Women: The Depression Decade
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 No
1976 Taylor, Joshua C America as Art 320 Yes
1976 Vassar College Art Gallery 7 American Women The Depression Era
(Exhibition catalog)		 39 No
1973 Collins, Jim L. Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present 426 No
1973 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1973 927 No
1973 O'Connor, Francis V (editor) Art for the Millions Essays by...Artists...WPA Federal Art Project 317 No
1962 Olds, Elizabeth (author/Illus) Plop Plop Ploppie 0 No
1958 O'Connor, William Van (editor) A History of the Arts in Minnesota 62 No
1958 Olds, Elizabeth (author/Illus) Deep Treasure 0 No
1948 Olds, Elizabeth (author/Illus) Riding the Rails 0 No
1947 Gilbert, Dorothy, (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 1947 685 No
1945 Olds, Elizabeth (author/Illus) The Big Fire 0 No
1939 Parker, Thomas (De Young Mus) Frontiers of American Art: Works Progress Administration
(Exhibition catalog)		 111 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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