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Large Ethel Edwards painting, Firedance II,c.1980
Large Ethel Edwards painting, Firedance II,c.1980
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Large Ethel Edwards painting, Firedance II,c.1980.From a collection of paintings that were originally donated to the Art Students League of NYC by Ethel Edwards and Xavier Gonzalez, who were both instructors there, to raise funds for students scholarships.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Measures 6 feet long and 38 inches high.---Signed by the artist front lower right.----------Made from series of painted panels attached together, probably masonite,with wood stretchers.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(From Wiki)Ethel Edwards, (1915 to 1999), was an American painter, collage artist, illustrator, and muralist born in Opelousas, Louisiana and died on January 24, 1999.In 1933 she entered Newcomb College in New Orleans where she studied with Xavier Gonzalez. She married Gonzales in 1936 in Alpine, Texas, where he had conducted a summer art colony for several years.CareerThey continued the summer art school until 1936 when Xavier took a leave of absence to live in France. Returning to Alpine with her husband in late 1937, Edwards won a national competition to paint a post office mural, Afternoon on a Texas Ranch, for Lampasas, Texas.In 1942 she completed a mural, Life on the Lake for the post office in Lake Providence, Louisiana.During the World War II war years Edwards and Gonzales moved to New York City where they both taught at the Art Students League and she did fashion illustrations for Town & Country and Fortune magazines.[3] From 1942 to 1949, the couple lived in New York City and spent summers at Wellfleet, Massachusetts on Cape Cod. Edwards later taught at the Truro Center of the Arts, an art school located in Truro, Massachusetts.The Xavier Gonzalez and Ethel Edwards Travel Grant given by The Art Students League of New York was first awarded in 2002; it provides stipends to artists for travel in Spain.Edwards was an instructor at the Art Students League.Her papers can be found in the Archives of American Art in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.Two of her paintings are owned by the United States Bureau of Reclamation.[6]References "New Deal Art in Alabama". Google Books. Retrieved 29 March 2017. "Ethel Edwards - Artist, Fine Art, Auction Records, Prices, Biography for Ethel Edwards". askart.com. Retrieved 24 January 2015. Archives of American Art. "Summary of the Ethel Edwards papers, 1935-1999 - Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution". si.edu. Retrieved 24 January 2015. "Grant Recipients 2013". Linea: The Artist's Voice. Retrieved 25 March 2017. "Instructors and Lecturers of the Art Students League (Past and present)". The Art Students League of New York. Retrieved 25 March 2017. "Ethel Edwards". usbr.gov. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
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