biografia di Mary G. ASCHER (1900-?)

Birth place: Leeds, England

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Painter, printmaker

Studied: New York Sch. Applied Design for Women; Hunter Col.; ASL; also with Will Barnet, Vaclav Vytlacil & Morris Kantor.

Exhibited: American Art in Our Time, Chrysler Exhib., Provincetown, 1957; Printers & Sculptors Soc NJ, 1958 (med. of hon.); Art USA, Coliseum, 1958-1959; Exchange Exhib. with Japanese Women Artist (Centenary), 1960; Exchange Exhib. with Argentine Artists (men and women), USIA, 1963; 18th New Eng. Ann., Silvermine Guild, 1967. Awards: Huntington Hartford Found. Fel., 1961; career achievement award in the arts, Baruch Col. Alumni Assn., 1968.

Member: Fel. Royal Soc. Arts, London; Am. Soc. Contemp. Artists; Nat. Assn. Women Artists (chmn. publicity & pub. rels., 1957-1971, ed. newsletter, 1961-1969); Life mem. ASL; Am. Fedn. Arts.

Work: Norfolk Mus, Va; Nat. Mus. Sports, NYC. Bat Yam Mus. & Ein Harod L'Osmanut, Israel; Nat. Collection Fine Art, Smithsonian Inst., Washington, DC; B'nai Brith Mus., Washington, DC.

Comments: Preferred media: oil, watercolor. Positions: 2nd v. press. & chaplain, Nat. Soc. Arts & Lett. (Empire State), 1972-. Publications: Auth., Poetry-Painting, 1958; contrib., Anthology of readings for use in Christian education and worship, Word Alive, 1969 & News Extra, 1971.