Edward Corbett (artist)

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Edward Corbett (August 22, 1919 – June 6, 1971) was an American

Abstract Expressionist
artist.

Biography

Corbett was born in Chicago, Illinois, to John Leland Corbett and Laura Corbett. His father was in the army, so the family moved often. Corbett lived in Virginia, Washington, D.C., Texas, Manilla and Ohio all before he turned 14.[1] He took his first art classes at the Dayton Art Institute in Ohio when he was 11 years old.[2] He continued to pursue the arts throughout high school. In 1937, he began taking summer courses at the California School of Fine Arts (CSFA) and eventually enrolled full-time to learn under Lee Randolph, Otis Oldfield and William Gaw. Corbett flourished as a student at CSFA and was awarded the Albert Bender Scholarship, Robert Howe Fletcher Award and the Anne Bremer Memorial Scholarship. After his studies, he was drafted into the army, but continued to draw when he could. Corbett was discharged in 1943 and joined the American Abstract Artists in New York by 1946. He married Catherine Henck in 1944.

Corbett returned to San Francisco and Douglas MacAgy invited him to teach at CSFA, where he worked alongside

U.C. Berkeley where Sam Francis
was among his students.

Corbett got his big break when

Provincetown, Massachusetts. At the time of his death, he was married to the painter Rosamond Walling Tirana Corbett (1910-1999), who was the daughter of Anna Strunsky and William English Walling.[6]

His artwork can be found in both private and public collections. U.S. President Barack Obama borrowed Washington, D.C. November 1963 III from the National Gallery of Art.[7]

References

  1. ^ Susan Landauer. Edward Corbett: A Retrospective, (Richmond, CA: Richmond Art Center, 1990), 51.
  2. ^ Gerald Nordland, Edward Corbett, Exhibition Catalogue, (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1969), n.p.
  3. ^ Susan Landauer. The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism, (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996),Chapter 2.
  4. ^ Robert E. Knoll, ed., Weldon Kees and the Midcentury Generation: Letters, 1935-1955, (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1986), 140.
  5. ^ Dorothy Miller, 15 Americans, (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1952), 7.
  6. ^ Edward and Rosamond Walling Tirana Corbett papers, 1932-1978
  7. ^ Charlotte Higgens, "What Barack and Michelle Obama's taste in art says about them" The Guardian, October 7, 2009.
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