Loren MacIver
Loren MacIver | |
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Carl van Vechten | |
Born | Mary Newman[1] February 2, 1909 New York City, New York |
Died | May 3, 1998 New York City, New York | (aged 89)
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Artist |
Loren MacIver (February 2, 1909 – May 3, 1998) was an American painter and the first woman represented in the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection.
Personal life
Loren MacIver was born in New York in 1909. Her father, Charles Augustus Paul Newman, was a physician, and her mother was Julia McIvers, whose name she kept but modified. At ten years old, she would attend Saturday art classes at the Art Students League.[2] She claimed that attending these classes for only one year was the only institutional learning she had received her whole career.[3] In 1929 she married poet and critic Lloyd Frankenburg.[4][5]
Work
MacIver's work ranges from naturalistic to abstract, but consistent throughout her work is the skill with which she depicts light.
She first began showing her work in group exhibitions in a few galleries and art associations from 1933 to 1937. She worked for the Federal Art Project/Works Progress Administration (FAP/WPA).[3] The director of the FAP/WPA, Holger Cahill, wrote of MacIver's work saying, "In its fusion of the interests of the world of fact and the world of feeling, Miss MacIver's work is richly imaginative, and delightful in its sensitive, personalized expression".[3] She ripened in her personal artistic style. She explained her method in 1946: "Quite simple things can lead to discovery. This is what I would like to do with painting: starting with simple things to lead the eye by various manipulations of colors, objects and tensions toward a transformation and a reward".[2] Her work was even shown in popular magazines like
MacIver is the first woman represented in the
MacIver's works are in the permanent collections of a number of institutions, including the
References
- ^ a b Butler, Sharon L. (7 March 2008). "Tracking Loren MacIver". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
- ^ a b c "Maciver, Loren." (n.d.): Art Full Text Biographies. Web. 3 Mar. 2016.
- ^ JSTOR 1358864.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
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- ^ Shirey, David L. (28 November 1970). "Art: Futurism, Surrealism and Cubism". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
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- ^ "Loren MacIver - Artists & Work". Alexandre Gallery. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
- ^ "The Sidewalk". Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
- ^ "Loren MacIver". The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
- ^ "Au Revoir Paris". Baltimore Museum of Art. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
- ^ "Fire Escape". Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
- ^ "Irish Landscape". Smithsonian Institution (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 January 2023.
- ^ "Violet Hour". LACMA Collections. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
- ^ "Paris". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
- ^ "Loren MacIver". MCA. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
- ^ "Loren MacIver". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
- ^ "Loren MacIver". National Gallery of Art. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
- ^ "Loren MacIver, "Oil Slick" (1949)". Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. 28 December 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
- ^ "Loren MacIver". Phillips Collection. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
- ^ "MacIver, Loren". SFMOMA. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
- ^ "Paris". Walker Art Center. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
- ^ "Loren MacIver". Whitney Museum of American Art. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
- ^ "The Streets Turn Young With Rain". Yale University Art Gallery. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
Further reading
- MacIver, Loren; Pierre Matisse Gallery (New York, N.Y.) (1970-01-01). Loren MacIver; recent paintings.[New York].
- MacIver, Loren; Frankenberg, Lloyd; Alexander Gallery (New York, N.Y.) (2002-01-01). Loren MacIver: the first Matisse years. New York: Alexandre Gallery.
- MacIver, Loren; Frash, Robert M; Newport Harbor Art Museum (1983-01-01). Loren MacIver, five decades: [exhibition] Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California, April 14-June 12, 1983. OCLC 10001458. Newport Beach, Calif.: The Museum.
- Baur, John I. H; MacIver, Loren; Pereira, I. Rice; Whitney Museum of American Art; Des Moines Art Center; San Francisco Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (1953-01-01). Loren MacIver, I. Rice Pereira. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art.
- MacIver, Loren; Tibor de Nagy Gallery (1998-01-01). Loren MacIver: a retrospective. New York: Tibor de Nagy Gallery. ISBN 1891123009.
External links
- Media related to Loren MacIver at Wikimedia Commons
- Loren MacIver at the Museum of Modern Art