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Elizabeth Wadleigh Leary

Elizabeth Wadleigh Leary (Born 1937) is active/lives in Massachusetts.  Elizabeth Leary is known for Classical real painting, architectural and still-life subjects, sculpture.

Elizabeth Leary has been described as a classical realist*, that is, an artist who perceives in the chaos of the world a certain mathematical clarity.  Ms. Leary's palette is severely reductive - her work places great emphasis on precise drawing over which color is layered in monochromatic washes. This austerity and clarity of vision lend an aura of haiku poetry to her still lifes and architectural painting.

An honors graduate in art from Skidmore College she was a modelmaker for Walter Gropius at The Architects Collaborative in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a graphic designer for NASA at the Harvard College Observatory. Since 1965 she has had over thirty one-man shows and has exhibited in the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club* Show in New York, with The Brandywine Artists in New Jersey, and the Artists of America Show in Denver.

Ms. Leary lives and works on her farm in Byfield, Massachusetts. Her daughter Elizabeth Leary Strazzulla is also a painter.<   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1240 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Elizabeth Wadleigh Leary

   Publications  Book References:  3
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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Elizabeth Wadleigh Leary
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Collector Elizabeth Leary April 2006 Editors, American Art Collector Yes
3 Book References for Elizabeth Wadleigh Leary
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
1997 Southwest Art Red Book Price Guide-1997 Western American Art 128 No
1994 Denver Rotary Club Denver Rotary Club's Artists of America: Fourteenth Annual
(Exhibition catalog)
88 Yes
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