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Fannie Hillsmith

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Fannie Hillsmith (1911 - 2007) was active/lived in New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts.  Fannie Hillsmith is known for Cubist painting, collage, printmaking.

Cubist painter, printmaker, assemblagist and collagist Fannie Hillsmith was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1911 of an old New England family.  Her extensive and varied art educational experiences include the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts (her grandfather, Frank Hill Smith, was one of its founders) from 1930 to 1934. S he studied in New York City at the Art Students League on scholarslhip in 1934 and 1935 with John Sloan, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Alexander Brook and William Zorach.

But it was through avant-garde work exhibited at the Gallery of Living Art, and artist Vaclav Vytlacil, also teaching at the League, that she first encountered modernist ideas, and was influenced by Paul Klee.  Ten years later, she worked at printmaker Stanley William Hayter's New York City Atelier 17 from 1946 to 1950 alongside modernists Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro and Jacques Lipchitz.

The artist herself taught for many years at the University of Illinois in Champaign, as well as in 1945 a   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6877 characters.]  Artist bio

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26 Book References for Fannie Hillsmith
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
2004 McGowan, Alison C (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition) 1512 No
2000 Spanierman Gallery America Gone Modern: From the Twenties to the Sixties
(Exhibition catalog)		 56 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
1997 Marquis Who's Who Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998 1515 No
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
1991 Falk, Peter Hastings Biennial Exhibition Record of the Corcoran Gallery of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 335 No
1991 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor); Andrea Ansell Bien The Annual & Biennial Exhibition Record of the Whitney Museum of Art (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1918-1989)
(Exhibition catalog)		 468 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Currier Gallery of Art Fannie Hillsmith
(Exhibition catalog)		 20 No
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
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 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
1969 Brockton Art Center Three Centuries of New England Art From New England Museums 48 No
1969 Janis, Sidney Abstract & Surrealist Art in America 146 No
1969 Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed) American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes) 600 Yes
1965 Gerdts, William H Women Artists of America 1707-1964
(Exhibition catalog)		 32 No
1957 American Abstract Artists The World of Abstract Art 167 Yes
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