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• She began studying drawing at eight years old, and four years later she was able to attend college-level painting classes at Lindenwood College for Women in St. Charles, Missouri. In 1951 she received a MA degree from Indiana University in Bloomington. Later she attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
• Throughout her life, she traveled and exhibited all over the world including India, Japan, Iran, and countries throughout Europe. In 1976, she traveled to three Latin American countries on a four-month scholarship from the United States Information Agency. She exhibited and lectured about her work as an artist as she traveled.
• In the 1970s, she curated notable exhibitions of women artists including a 1975 show at the Women’s Interart Center in New York City featuring women artists from around the world for the United Nations International Year of the Woman.
• Her own work appeared in many women's exhibitions, among them the 1978 "Women Choose Women" organized by Women in the Arts, the 1974 "Walkthru Art" outdoor exhibit created by members of New York Professional Women Artists, the CIBA-Geigy traveling "Works by Women" show of 1974, and "Women Artists '78" organized by the Women's Caucus for Art/Metropolitan New York chapter.
Alice Baber
United States, 1928 - 1982
Place of BirthCharleston, Illinois
Place of DeathNew York, New York
Biography• Baber is known as an abstract painter, lithographer, and is considered a feminist artist.• She began studying drawing at eight years old, and four years later she was able to attend college-level painting classes at Lindenwood College for Women in St. Charles, Missouri. In 1951 she received a MA degree from Indiana University in Bloomington. Later she attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
• Throughout her life, she traveled and exhibited all over the world including India, Japan, Iran, and countries throughout Europe. In 1976, she traveled to three Latin American countries on a four-month scholarship from the United States Information Agency. She exhibited and lectured about her work as an artist as she traveled.
• In the 1970s, she curated notable exhibitions of women artists including a 1975 show at the Women’s Interart Center in New York City featuring women artists from around the world for the United Nations International Year of the Woman.
• Her own work appeared in many women's exhibitions, among them the 1978 "Women Choose Women" organized by Women in the Arts, the 1974 "Walkthru Art" outdoor exhibit created by members of New York Professional Women Artists, the CIBA-Geigy traveling "Works by Women" show of 1974, and "Women Artists '78" organized by the Women's Caucus for Art/Metropolitan New York chapter.
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- Alice Baber
United States, born Ukraine, 1899 - 1988
