Jessie Baetz
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Jessie Baetz | |
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Born | Jessie Elizabeth Drummer June 28, 1894 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Died | November 28, 1980 New Paltz, New York | (aged 86)
Occupation | Artist, composer, and pianist |
Spouse |
Walter Baetz
(m. 1926; died 1978) |
Jessie Baetz (born Jessie Elizabeth Drummer;[1] June 28, 1894 – November 28, 1980)[2] was a Canadian-American artist, composer, and pianist.
Early life and education
Baetz was born in
Career
She immigrated to
Her visual art consisted of "painting sculptures or spatial creations", including colorful masks.[10] She exhibited her work at the Phoenicia Library in Phoenicia, New York in 1963,[11] 1966,[12] and 1970.[10]
Works
Baetz's only known compositions are the Two Compositions for Violin and Piano, Three Vocalizes for Soprano, and Six Dances for Percussion.[9] They were never published and the whereabouts of these or any of her other musical works are unknown.[13]
In 1936, she was one of the performers in recordings made for the New Music Quarterly of Bill Russell's Three Dance Movements: For Percussion Group and Wallingford Riegger's Evocation.[14]
Personal life
Jessie Drummer married fellow artist Walter Baetz in 1926.[10] They lived in Shandaken, New York. In 1961 they were both rescued after a carbon monoxide accident in their home.[15] Her husband died in 1978,[16] and she died in November 1980, at a nursing home in New Paltz, New York, at the age of 86.[2]
References
- ^ Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927. FamilySearch. Retrieved April 6, 2021.
- ^ a b c "Mrs. Jessie Baetz Had Been an Artist". Catskill Mountain News. December 4, 1980. Retrieved September 29, 2023 – via NYS Historic Newspapers.
- ^ New York, Southern District, U.S District Court Naturalization Records, 1824-1946. FamilySearch. Retrieved April 6, 2021.
- ^ "Esther Ann Drummer". The Toronto Star. 1942-10-27. p. 26. Retrieved 2023-09-29 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Royal Conservatory of Music (May 1913). The Conservatory bi-monthly. Toronto, Conservatory of Music. p. 150 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "Art in Review: At the Jumble Shop", New York Times (Dec. 21, 1932): 17.
- JSTOR 40071709.
- ISBN 978-1-58046-426-0.
- ^ a b "Prize Quartet is Played". The New York Times. December 16, 1937. p. 34. Retrieved September 30, 2023.
- ^ a b c "Art Show With Zing". The Kingston Daily Freeman. 1970-10-31. p. 35. Retrieved 2023-09-29 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "An Art Exhibition". Margaretville Catskill Mountain News. October 31, 1963. p. 13. Retrieved September 29, 2023 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
- ^ "Phoenicia Library has Art Exhibit". The Kingston Daily Freeman. 1966-06-22. p. 26. Retrieved 2023-09-29 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ de Graaf 2013, p. 101.
- ^ "Three dance movements: for percussion group by William Russell. Evocation: (piano 4-hands) by Wallingford Riegger". NYPL Digital Collections. Retrieved 2023-09-29.
- ^ "Neighbors Rescued Two from Monoxide". Margaretville Catskill Mountain News. May 26, 1961. p. 2. Retrieved September 29, 2023 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
- ^ "Walter Baetz was Prominent Artist". Catskill Mountain News. November 16, 1978. p. 6. Retrieved September 29, 2023 – via NYS Historic Newspapers.