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Object number2024.101.1

Artist Elizabeth Voelker (born 1931)

Date1992

MediumPaper; Watercolor paint; Ink; Graphite

Credit LineGift of Bert Hansen

DescriptionWatercolor painting on rectangular heavyweight textured off-white paper. Painting has gradient coloring with light pink-brown and blue-gray along the top third, reds with purple details across center third, and dark purple on bottom third. Edges are irregular with stray paper fibers. Reverse is off-white with paint bleed around the perimeter. DimensionsHeight x Width x Depth: 6.125 x 11.5 x 0.063 in. (15.6 x 29.2 x 0.2 cm)
SignedReverse has artist signature in black ink in viewer's top left quadrant "Voelker".
MarksReverse has handwritten dedication in black ink at bottom center "For Cynthia and Dick - / Happy Anniversary!" and handwritten number and date in graphite at center "14 / 5/15/92".
Historical NotesWatercolor painting by Elizabeth Voelker. According to donor Bert Hansen, this watercolor was probably painted during a residency at Bellagio on Lake Como, Italy. Elizabeth Voelker was born in 1931 in the East End of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, one of three children. She received her Bachelor's of Fine Arts in 1953 from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, now Carnegie Mellon University. Voelker moved to San Francisco in 1958, and was a lecturer for museums in California and the University of California from 1972 to 1987. Among her achievements, Voelker received three grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation Grant to the Bellagio Study and Conference Center in Lake Como, Italy, and residences at the Djerassi Foundation in California, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She received international recognition for her work in places like the American Academy in Rome, and sixteen pieces of her art were selected for the U.S. Department of State Art in Embassies Program as a presentation of American art abroad. Voelker's art has been purchased by a number of public museums in the U.S. including the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Carnegie Institute Art Museum in Pittsburgh, PA. Voelker's artwork is associated with the Addison/Ripley Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Cantor/Lemberg Gallery in Michigan, and Gallery 30 in San Mateo, CA.

Related institution Carnegie Mellon University

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