Women artists

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...

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...

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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.

Scope and Contents

Brochures on exhibits, articles correspondence regarding women artists.