Image Source: WIKIPEDIAJANE PIPER
1916-1991
Jane Piper is an American artist known for her abstract treatment of still lifes. Building on the French modernist tradition of Matisse and Cézanne, she gave color precedence over representation. Shortly after her death a critic said "throughout her career Piper worked within a relatively narrow aesthetic range. She was interested in spatial organization and in creating space through color — concerns of another painter she admired, Henri Matisse. There's a sense of Matisse in her later work, but no indication that she was trying to imitate him; the resonance reflects shared concerns."
From her first exhibition in 1943 through the end of her life she was given a total of thirty-four solo exhibitions in Philadelphia, New York, and other East Coast galleries and her works have been collected by major museums including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the National Academy of Design, The Phillips Collection, and the Carnegie Museum of Art.
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JANE PIPER BIOGRAPHY
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Still life and landscape painter Jane Piper was born in Philadelphia in 1917.
She first became aware of her interest in art at the age of nine, while in France. Upon returning to the United States, she began taking painting lessons. She was influenced by an exhibition of work by Hugh Breckenridge and later studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with Daniel Garber. Piper also studied with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown in 1941, with Earl Horter and Arthur Carles, and at the Barnes Foundation.
She taught painting and drawing at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the mid-1950s and at the Philadelphia College of Art from 1956 to 1985.
Piper's first solo exhibition was held in 1943 at the Robert Carlen Gallery in Philadelphia. Her work was also exhibited in New York City and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Annuals from 1945 through 1968.
Her paintings hang in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Carnegie Institute of Art in Pittsburgh, the National Academy of Design in New York City, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
The artist died in 1991.
Source: Newman Galleries
1957
Oil on canvas
24 x 30 inches
Signed and dated verso
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