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Alice Baber

Alice Baber (1928 - 1982) was active/lived in New York, Illinois / France.  Alice Baber is known for Abstract-stain imagery and still life painting, lithography.

Abstract* painter, lithographer and feminist*, Alice Baber specialized in paintings of ovals, circles and free-forms that extolled the radiance of color.  Born August 22, 1928 in Charleston, Illinois, the artist was dogged by ill-health as a child, forced to spend her winters in Florida to escape the harsh northern winters.  Cancer would claim her on October 2, 1982 in New York City at the relatively young age of fifty-four.  She is buried in Fairview Cemetery in Edgar County, Illinois.

But she began her art studies early, as if to compensate for a shortened life, studying drawing as an eight-year-old, and taking a college class by age twelve.  She attended Lindenwood College in Missouri for two years, then studied with Alton Pickens, a figurative expressionist painter, at Indiana University in Bloomington.  She received her M.A. degree there in1951.

Travel was an important activity for Baber in the early 1950s, during her marriage from 1964-1970 to abstract painter Pau   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4645 characters.]  Artist bio

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