Women artists
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Deborah Howard's Holocaust Portraits and Papers
Collection
Identifier: B398
Abstract
Deborah Howard is an Associate Professor and Head of Painting Program at the University of Denver. After a discussion on racial stereotypes and aging in a Figure Painting course Howard was teaching, she began to develop her Portraits of Child Holocaust Survivors project and settled on drawing as the media for the project. Howard has drawn and painted twenty-five people who escaped, hid or survived concentration camps during the Jewish Holocaust of WWII. Four portraits from the project are...
Dates:
1949-2019
Greta Hilb Artwork
Collection
Identifier: B154
Abstract
Greta Hilb (1904-1998) was born in Stuttgart, Germany and became a local Denver Jewish female artist of note. She studied at the Parsons School of Design in New York and settled in Denver in 1934. In 1964, she also co-authored a cookbook titled For Goodness Sake with Denver author Leora Mattingly Weber, famous nationally for her Beany Malone juvenile series. The Hilbs were related to the Levy family of Denver, founders of the Fashion Bar clothing store chain. The collection consists of...
Dates:
1930-1990
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
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Greta Hilb Artwork
Ida C. Failing Paint Box and Receipts
Collection
Identifier: B361
Abstract
She was an artist in Denver, Colorado around the turn of the century. She did paintings on canvas as well as hand painting bone china pieces. Ida C. Failing was born in Illinois in 1857 and died in Denver Colorado in 1918. Collection contains a paint box containing art supplies and receipts related to Ida C. Failing from 1895.
Dates:
circa 1895
Petteys, Chris Collection
Collection
Identifier: M187
Scope and Contents
Brochures on exhibits, articles correspondence regarding women artists.
Dates:
Other: 1970