Gillian Pederson-Krag

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Gillian Pederson-Krag
Born1938
EducationBFA Rhode Island School of Design, MFA Cornell University
Known forpainting, etching
Website Artist's website

Gillian Pederson-Krag is a contemporary American artist. She was born in New York City in 1938, and lives and works in Santa Cruz, California. [1]

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Background

Krag received her B.F.A from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence in 1961 and her M.F.A from Cornell University in Ithaca in 1963, where she also taught painting and drawing from 1966-1979. [2] Her works can be found in the collections of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, The New York Public Library Print Collection, the Library of Congress Print Collection, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, among others. [3]

In 2004, Krag was the Frances Niederer artist-in-residence at Hollins University. She gave a collection of etching prints to the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, which then became a part of the museum's permanent collection. [4]

Selected solo and group exhibitions

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  4. "The Eleanor D. Wilson Museum | Hollins University | 2006". www.hollins.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-29.
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