biografia di Cady WELLS (1904-1954)

Birth place: Southbridge, MA

Death place: Santa Fe, NM

Addresses: Santa Fe, NM in 1935

Profession: Painter

Studied: Harvard Univ.; Univ. Arizona; & with Andrew Dasburg, 1932; brushwork and flower arranging in Japan; in France in 1953

Exhibited: AIC, 1935-49; San Diego AF, 1936 (prize); State Fair, NM, 1939 (prize); Rio Grande Painters, Santa Fe, 1934; Heptagon Gal., Taos, 1934; WMAA, 1941-53; Mus. New Mexico, 1956 (retrospective); Univ. New Mexico, 1967 (retrospective).

Member: AFA; Springfield (MA) AL; San Diego AG

Work: FMA; Avery Mem., Hartford, CT; San Diego FA Soc.; San Diego AG; AIC; Mus. New Mexico; Amon Carter Mus.

Comments: Went to Taos at age 28 to study with Dasburg and thereafter determined to make art his career. Studied and traveled widely. Specialties: watercolors; gouache abstractions.

Sources: WW53; WW47; P&H Samuels, 518-19; Eldredge, et al., Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945, 209.