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| CONSTANCE CLARK WILLIS. Untitled watercolor on off-white wove paper, 14" x 16 1/2" (357 x 419mm.)(image and sheet), monogrammed in pencil center right, dated 1965 on the verso. Rendered in shades of orange and red. A 3/4" closed, horizontal tear to the center right edge of the sheet, just below the artist's monogram; verso of sheet slightly darkened. Part of Willis' mid-1960s series of low contrast (at times essentially monochromatic), non-representational color studies devoid of depth. Unframed. Provenance: estate of the artist. Constance Clark Willis (1914-2004), painter, graphic artist and educator. Education: Rome (painting, sculpture, ca. 1932); University of Louisville; Art Students League (with George B. Bridgman, 1936-1937), Hilton Leech (watercolor); International School of Art, Mexico City (with Carlos Merida, 1946); Worden Day (printmaking, 1946-1947); Guy Pène du Bois; Boris Margo; Carl Holty; Ulfert Wilke; Juro Kubicek. Professional: staff of the Art Center School, Louisville (1942 - circa 1975); Lecturer in Art, University of Louisville; Member, National Assn. of Women Painters and Sculptors (from 1938). One-Person Exhibitions: Art Club of Louisville, 1938; University of Louisville, 1942; Louisville Art Center, 1953, 1962; Sarasota, FL (circa late 1950s); Ruth Sherman Gallery, New York, 1963; Swearingen Gallery, Louisville, 1981. Group Exhibitions: National Watercolor Exhibition, Fine Arts Society of San Diego, 1941; Art Center Assn. School Instructor Exhibition, Louisville Art Center, 1944; Amagansett Group, Morton Galleries, New York, ca.1945; National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, 1951, 1957; Terry National Art Exhibit, Miami, 1952 (prize); Kentucky and Southern Indiana Exhibition of Art, 1953 (purchase prize); Virginia Intermont College Regional Exhibit, 1953 (prize); National Print Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1953; Louisville Art Center Annual Exhibition of Art, 1954 (prize), 1955; Kentucky State Fair, 1954 (prize), 1956 (prize), 1962 (prize); Carriage House Fine Arts Gallery, Louisville, 1954; Interior Valley Competition, Cincinnati, 1955; Eleven Artists of the Region, East Hampton, 1955; Experience Artistique d'une Ville Americaine, Montpellier (State Dept.-sponsored tour of France), 1958; Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, 1959; Hunter Gallery Annual, Chattanooga, 1960, 1961, 1962; Grist in the Mill, Water Mill Museum, 1987; Jimmy Ernst Artists' Alliance First Annual Members Exhibition, East Hampton, 1995. Collections: Philadelphia Print Club; J.B. Speed Art Museum; Seagram Collection of Kentucky Art; Evansville Museum of Art; Columbia Museum of Art; Parrish Art Museum; Guild Hall, East Hampton; numerous private collections. | ||
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