Evelyn Metzger

Ceramic tile gifted by Metzger to the Brooklyn Museum

Evelyn Borchard Metzger (1911 - 2007) was an American modernist painter.

Life

Metzger was born in New York City in 1911. She studied at the Art Students League of New York with George Bridgman. She graduated from Vassar College; then she studied with Sally James Farnham and George Grosz, and Raphael Soyer. ^[1]

She lived in South America for many years, where she worked with Bolivian painter Cecilio Guzmán de Rojas. ^[2]

She has participated in numerous group shows in museums and held several solo shows. ^{[1] [3]} She had exhibitions at Gallerie Bellechasse, ^[4] Papillon Gallery, ^[1] Palmer Gallery, ^[5] and Johnson Museum of Art. ^[6] Her works are in the National Museum of Women in the Arts collection. She donated artwork to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ^{[7] [8]} and Brooklyn Museum. ^[9]

Further reading

• Topping, Brett (1995). The age of grandeur and a woman who lived it : artist Evelyn Metzger. Evelyn Borchard Metzger, Nancy Heller. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of Women in the Arts. ISBN   0-940979-29-2. OCLC   31331526. ^[10]

References

1. "EVELYN METZGER". www.papillongallery.com. Retrieved December 20, 2022.
2. "Evelyn Borchard Metzger papers, 1959-1968 | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution". www.aaa.si.edu. Retrieved December 20, 2022.
3. Mather, Frank Jewett; Sherman, Frederic Fairchild (1997). Evelyn Metzger's Central Park. Art in America.
4. The Connoisseur: An Illustrated Magazine for Collectors. Sampson Low, Marston & Company. 1963.
5. Artdaily. "The Palmer Gallery Presents Voyages: The Art of Evelyn Metzger". artdaily.cc. Retrieved December 20, 2022.
6. "Evelyn Metzger's Mardi Gras | Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art". museum.cornell.edu. Retrieved December 20, 2022.
7. Liedtke, Walter A. (2007). Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN   978-1-58839-273-2.
8. Montebello, Philippe De (1994). The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN   978-0-87099-710-5.
9. "Brooklyn Museum". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved December 20, 2022.
10. Simpson, Pamela (1998). "Review of Inside Looking out: The Life and Art of Gina Knee; The Age of Grandeur and the Woman Who Lived It: Artist Evelyn Metzger" . Woman's Art Journal. 19 (2): 56–57. doi:10.2307/1358413. ISSN   0270-7993. JSTOR   1358413.