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Kyra Markham

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Kyra (Gaither) Markham (1891 - 1967) was active/lived in Illinois, Vermont.  Kyra Markham is known for Genre-streets, figure, graphics.

Realist painter-printmaker Kyra Markham had significant experience as an actress from 1909 into the 1920s with the Chicago Little Theater, in movies in Los Angeles, and from 1916 with the Provincetown Players in Massachusetts.

Born Elaine Hyman in Chicago in 1891, Markham studied art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1907-1909, when, discovered by Maurice Brown, she left school to act. Though she supplemented her income from acting with work as a muralist and illustrator, it was not until 1930 that she returned to the study of art with Alexander Abels at the Art Students League in New York City. In 1934, she studied printmaking, including lithography, and took part in the WPA artists' program from 1935-1937. She was awarded the Mary S. Collins Prize at the Philadelphia Print Club annual exhibition in 1935.

Her paintings and lithographs are primarily realist in style and run the gamut from poetic landscapes to Social-Realist commentaries such as ("Penny,   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2421 characters.]  Artist bio

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.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Kyra Markham available:    Kenneth Hayes Miller,  Philip Reisman,  Cecil Crosley ("Spike") Bell,  Robert Remsen Vickrey,  John Bunyan Bristol,  Henry Pember Smith,  William Jurian Kaula,  William Anderson Coffin,  Jan Matulka,  Robert Gwathmey,  John Von Wicht,  Theresa Ferber Bernstein,  John Appleton Brown,  Allen Tucker,  Ernest Fiene,  Joe (Joseph John) Jones,  Paul Meltsner,  Charles Sydney Hopkinson,  Boris Lovet-Lorski,  Birge (Lovell Birge) Harrison,  Edwin Willard Deming,  Paul Cadmus,  John Dolph,  Iver Rose



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   Publications  Book References:  14
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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Kyra Markham
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Modern Metropolis June 1994 AR editors No
14 Book References for Kyra Markham
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
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary 612 No
1995 Robertson, Bruce Representing America Ken Trevey Collection American Realist Prints
(Exhibition catalog)		 67 No
1991 Watson, Steven Strange Bedfellows: The First American Avant-Garde 439 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Lang, Gladys & Kurt Etched, in Memory The Building and Survival of Artistic Reputation 437 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 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
1983 Adams, Clinton American Lithographers 1900-1960: The Artists and Their Printers 228 Yes
1973 Collins, Jim L. Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present 426 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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