Worden Day

Worden Day studied at New York University, Art Students League of New York and Randolph–Macon College. The field of work recorded is printmaking. Employment is recorded with University of Wyoming. Works named in the authority record are Broken Moon Suit, Terra Incognita, Mandala V, Prismatic Presences, Mandala II and Arcana III. Work by Worden Day is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum and Print Collection. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship.

• Name — Worden Day • Born — 11 June 1912 • Birthplace — Columbus, Ohio • Died — 27 January 1986 • Place of death — Montclair, New Jersey • Field — Printmaking • Awards — Guggenheim Fellow (1952), (1961)

Day was born in Columbus, Ohio, and graduated from Randolph-Macon College in 1934. After moving to New York she studied at the Art Students League of New York and the New School of Social Research, and worked at Atelier 17 in 1943. She also ran a print shop for reading books for the New York City Board of Education. She taught at the University of Wyoming, from 1949 to 1952, graduated from New York University with a M.A. in 1966, and returned to the Art Students League as an instructor from 1966 through 1970. Day was a MacDowell fellow throughout her life in 1940, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1963, and 1981. Day died January 27, 1986, of cancer. The Smithsonian Archives of American Art holds 4.5 linear feet of archival materials from Day's life, of which, a small selection is available online. Day's work is held by the National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.