Elsie Driggs
Painting, Visual Artist
1898 – 1992
Who was Elsie Driggs?
Elsie Driggs was an American painter known for her contributions to Precisionism, America's one indigenous modern-art movement before Abstract Expressionism, and for her later floral and figurative watercolors, pastels, and oils. She was the only female participant in the Precisionist movement, which in the 1920s and 1930s took a Cubist-inspired approach to painting the skyscrapers and factories that had come to define the new American landscape. Her works are in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Houston Museum of the Fine Arts, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the James A. Michener Art Museum in Pennsylvania, and the Columbus Museum of Art, among others. She was married to the American abstract artist Lee Gatch.
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- Born
- 1898
Hartford - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Art Students League of New York
- Lived in
- Hartford
- Died
- Jul 12, 1992
New York City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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