biografia di Dorothy VARIAN (1895-1985)

Birth place: NYC

Death place: NYC

Addresses: NYC/Bearsville, NY

Profession: Painter, designer

Studied: Cooper Union Art School; ASL; J. Sloan; Kenneth Hayes Miller; Andrew Dasburg; George Bellows; Paris, France; Woodstock, NY, with John Carlson & Edward Chase.

Exhibited: Durand-Ruel Gal., Paris, France, 1922 (solo); Salons of Am.; CI, 1931, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1942-45; PAFA Ann., 1933, 1939-1940, 1943-48; Corcoran Gal. biennials, 1930-43 (6 times); VMFA, 1938, 1940; AIC, 1941; CAM, 1938, 1945; WMAA, 1920-52; WMA, 1938; NAD, 1945; Pepsi-Cola, 1944; Woodstock AA, annually; BM, 1953; Yale Univ., 1955; La Tausca traveling exhib., 1948; London, England, 1938; nine solo exhibs. through 1953; Long Island Univ., 1961; NYC WPA Art" at Parsons School Design, 1977. Awards: prize, William Fox Competition, NY"

Member: Woodstock AA; Audubon Artists; Am. Soc. PS&G.

Work: WMAA; Newark Mus.; PMG; Dartmouth College; Fisk Univ.; Ogunquit Mus. Art; Phillips Mem. Gallery; Woodstock AA

Comments: WPA artist.

Sources: WW59; WW47; New York City WPA Art, 91 (w/repros.); add'l info. courtesy of Peter Bissell, Cooperstown, NY; Woodstock AA; Petteys, Dictionary of Women Artists; Falk, Exh. Record Series.

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