Eve Garrison
Eve Josephson Garrison (1903–2003) was a modernist painter. Her early works were in a realist style and included landscapes and cityscapes, specifically depicting Chicago, Colorado, and Mexico. She also painted nudes and portraits and increasingly abstract and textured art in later life.
Also recorded as Eve Josephson Garrison
Eve Garrison
- Name
- Eve Garrison
- Birth Name
- Eve Josephson
- Born
- 22 April 1903
- Birthplace
- Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Died
- 17 April 2003
- Place of death
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Education
- Art Institute of Chicago (1930)
- Known for
- Painting
- Movement
- Modernism Realism
- Spouse
- Joseph D.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- painter · artist
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She suggested that creating work for juried shows and annuals was not the way "to be a great artists!" Instead, she began making work that she felt was more expressive of her ideas. In the sixties she began making work that she termed "sculptural relief oil paintings". This involved a process of embedding objects such as seeds, branches, glass, and string into the paint. During the period she was producing more abstract work she had solo exhibitions in New York, Detroit, Milwaukee, Miami, Paris, and London. In 1957, Garrison, along with twenty-three other artists, including Leo Segedin, co-founded Exhibit A, the first post-war, artist-run cooperative gallery in Chicago.
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• Name — Eve Garrison • Birth Name — Eve Josephson • Born — 22 April 1903 • Birthplace — Boston, Massachusetts, United States • Died — 17 April 2003 • Place of death — Chicago, Illinois, United States • Education — Art Institute of Chicago (1930) • Known for — Painting • Style — Landscape art Portraiture Abstract art • Movement — Modernism Realism • Spouse — Joseph D. Garrison
Early life
Early life
Garrison graduated from School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930. She also exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago's Annual Chicago and Vicinity Artists exhibition between 1934 and 1940.
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
• 1934–1940 Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, AIC • 1983 After the Great Crash: New Deal Art in Illinois, Illinois State Museum • 2007 Eve Garrison: Life Study, 70 Years of figurative painting
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• 1933 Prize, Chicago Galleries Association • 1933 Prize, Washington (DC) Society of Artists
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