Andrée Rexroth (1902 – 17 October 1940) was an American artist.
Andrée Schafer Rexroth | |
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 self portrait | |
| Born | 1902 |
| Died | September 17, 1940 (aged 37–38)[1] |
In the 1920s she married the poet Kenneth Rexroth. In 1927 the couple hitchhiked and camped their way from Indiana to San Francisco, California, where they settled.[2] In the 1930s she took part in the Works Progress Administration initiative to employ artists during the Great Depression.[3] In 1936 she was part of the group exhibition New Horizons in American Art at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.[4] She died from complications of an epileptic seizure in 1940, aged 38.[2] Following her death, Kenneth Rexroth wrote five poems in her memory.[5]
Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum[1] and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,[6]
References edit
- ^ a b "Andree Rexroth | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu.
- ^ a b Simins, Jill Weiss (16 May 2017). "Kenneth Rexroth: Poet, Pacifist, Radical, and Reluctant Father of the Beat Generation". The Indiana History Blog.
- ^ "WPA Artwork in Non-federal Repositories". U.S. General Services Administration, Public Building Service, Cultural and Environmental Affairs Division, Fine Arts program. 1996.
- ^ "Andrée Rexroth on MOMA Exhibition Spelunker". www.moma.org.
- ^ Rexroth, Kenneth (10 April 2012). In the Sierra: Mountain Writings. New Directions Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8112-1902-0.
- ^ "Andrée Schafer Rexroth". FAMSF Search the Collections. 21 September 2018.
External links edit
Media related to Andrée Rexroth at Wikimedia Commons
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