Betty Woodman
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Elizabeth "Betty" Woodman (née Abrahams; May 14, 1930 – January 2, 2018) was an American ceramic artist.
Betty Woodman was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, and she attended the School for American Craftsmen at Alfred University in New York from 1948 until 1950[1]. She began her career in the 1950s as a production potter. Her career moved from functional pottery to fresh and exuberant art culminating in a retrospective show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2006 [2] and a solo show at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 2016 with the very appropriate title Theatre of the Domestic.[3] She taught for thirty years at the University of Colorado sharing her energy for ceramics with her students.[4]
Awards and honors
Woodman's awards and honors include:[5]
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships (1980,1986)
- Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at the Bellagio Study Center, Bellagio, Italy (1995)
- Fulbright-Hays Scholarship to Florence Italy (1996)
- Doctor of Fine Arts Honors Causa from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (2006)
- Doctor of Human Letters Honoris Causa from the University of Colorado Boulder (2007)[6]
- Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design (2009)[7]
- Gold Medal for Consummate Craftmanship, American Craft Council Awards (2014)[8]
Exhibitions
Woodman has exhibited at museums and galleries in the US and internationally, including:
- 'Betty Woodman' at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1996)[4]
- 'Betty Woodman' at the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO (2002)[9]
- 'Theaters of Betty Woodman' at the Museu Nacional do Azulejo, Lisbon (2005) and the Musée Ariana, Geneva (2006)
- 'The Art of Betty Woodman' a retrospective exhibition of her career at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2006)[2]
- 'Betty Woodman: Roman Fresco/Pleasures and Places' first exhibited at the American Academy in Rome (2010)
- 'Betty Woodman: Theatre of the Domestic' at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, 2016[3]
Collections
Woodman's work is included in public collections, including:
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston[10]
- Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York[11]
- Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
- Museum of Modern Art, New York[12]
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York[13]
- National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.[14]
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA[15]
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London[16]
- Minneapolis Institute of Art[17][18]
Other contributions
In the 1991 documentary Thinking Out Loud, Woodman is interviewed by curator and painter John Perreault. In 2006 the monograph, Betty Woodman,[19] was produced in conjunction with her retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and it includes curatorial essays by Janet Koplos, Barry Schwabsky, and Arthur Danto.[citation needed]
References
- ^ Benezit Dictionary of Artists.
- ^ a b "The Art of Betty Woodman | The Metropolitan Museum of Art". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2016-05-02.
- ^ a b "Betty Woodman: Theatre of the Domestic". ica.org.uk. Retrieved 2016-05-02.
- ^ a b Betty Woodman. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum. 1996. p. 7. ISBN 9050061117. OCLC 37297410.
- ^ Familiar-Studio.com, Familiar. "Betty Woodman - Salon 94". Salon94. Retrieved 2016-05-02.
- ^ "Honorary Degrees, University Medals and Distinguished Service Awards Full List A-Z". University of Colorado. 2014-06-23. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Honorary Degree Recipients|1990-2016" (PDF). Retrieved March 7, 2018.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Masters: Betty Woodman". craftcouncil.org. Retrieved 2016-05-02.
- ^ Betty Woodman : February 16-April 14, 2002, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art. Sedalia, Missouri: Daum Museum of Contemporary Art. 2002.
- ^ "Pillow Pitcher". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Retrieved 2016-05-02.
- ^ "Betty Woodman | Deco Lake Shore | The Met". The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum. Retrieved 2016-05-02.
- ^ "Betty Woodman | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2016-05-02.
- ^ "Whitney Museum of American Art: Betty Woodman". collection.whitney.org. Retrieved 2016-05-02.
- ^ "Artist Info". www.nga.gov. Retrieved 2016-05-02.
- ^ Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Philadelphia Museum of Art - Collections Object : Diptych Vases, Orpheus". philamuseum.org. Retrieved 2016-05-02.
- ^ "Pillow Vase | Woodman, Betty | V&A Search the Collections". collections.vam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-05-02.
- ^ Woodman, Betty. "Betty Woodman, "Cup With Gondola, 1982," Minneapolis Institute of Art". Retrieved Mar 9, 2019.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Betty Woodman, "Urn, c. 1985," Minneapolis Institute of Art". Retrieved March 9, 2019.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Woodman, Betty (2006-01-01). Betty Woodman. Monacelli Press. ISBN 9781580931687.
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