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Elizabeth Osborne

{{short description|American painter (born 1936)}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1936|06|05}}

| birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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| movement = Figurative painting, abstract painting

| known_for = Oil painter, watercolorist

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| awards = Fulbright Scholar, Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, PAFA Distinguished Alumni Award, Ford Foundation Purchase Prize, MacDowell Colony Grant

| website = {{URL|http://elizabethosborne.us/paintings.html}}

| education = Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania

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Elizabeth Osborne (born 1936) is an American painter and teacher, who lives in Philadelphia. Working primarily in oil paint and watercolor, her paintings are known to bridge ideas about formalist concerns, particularly luminosity with her explorations of nature, atmosphere and vistas. Beginning with figurative paintings in the 1960s and '70s, she moved on to bold, color drenched, landscapes and eventually abstractions that explore color spectrums. Her experimental assemblage paintings that incorporated objects began an inquiry into psychological content that she continued in a series of self-portraits and a long-running series of solitary female nudes and portraits. Osborne's later abstract paintings present a culmination of ideas—distilling her study of luminosity, the landscape, and light.{{cite web |url=http://www.locksgallery.com/press_pdf/07-19-09,%20inquirer.pdf |title=A painter showing her true colors by Edward Sozanski |publisher=The Philadelphia Inquirer |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402201200/http://www.locksgallery.com/press_pdf/07-19-09%2C%20inquirer.pdf |archivedate=2015-04-02 }}

Career

Elizabeth Osborne was born in 1936, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.File:BlackDoorwayI.jpg in 2017.]]

Osborne attended classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1959 for her undergraduate studies.{{Cite book |last=Nickels |first=Thom |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HmgbBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA69 |title=Legendary Locals of Center City Philadelphia |date=2014 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=978-1-4671-0141-7 |pages=69 |language=en}} After graduation Osborne was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and traveled to Paris to study art for a year.

In 1963, she became the third woman to join the faculty at PAFA and for many years was the sole female faculty member.{{cite web |url=http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/0101/0101pro4.html |title=Penn Gazette: Elizabeth Osborne}} She retired from teaching at PAFA in 2011. In 2008, she was honored with a career survey exhibition at the museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts organized by curator Robert Cozzolino, bringing together works from all periods of her career and accompanied by a major monograph publication.{{cite web |title=Elizabeth Osborne: The Color of Light |url=https://www.pafa.org/elizabeth-osborne-color-light |website=PAFA |accessdate=9 March 2015 |archive-date=21 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621143502/https://www.pafa.org/elizabeth-osborne-color-light |url-status=dead}} Osborne currently lives and works in Philadelphia and is represented by Locks Gallery.

Her work is in numerous public collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art,[http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/results.html?searchTxt=&keySearch=+Search+&searchNameID=15642&searchClassID=&searchOrigin=&searchDeptID=&accessionID=&page=1 Philadelphia Museum of Art – Collections] the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,{{Cite web |url=https://www.pafa.edu/collection/rookwood-still-life |title=PAFA: Elizabeth Osborne- Rockwood Still Life |access-date=2015-03-07 |archive-date=2015-04-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402131553/https://www.pafa.edu/collection/rookwood-still-life |url-status=dead }} the McNay Art Museum, the Reading Art Museum, the Delaware Art Museum, the Woodmere Art Museum, and the Palmer Museum of Art.{{Cite web |url=http://www.locksgallery.com/artists/bio/locksCvOsborne.pdf |title=Elizabeth Osborne: CV Locks Gallery |access-date=2015-03-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403063323/http://www.locksgallery.com/artists/bio/locksCvOsborne.pdf |archive-date=2015-04-03 |url-status=dead }}

Exhibitions

  • "Elizabeth Osborne: The Sixties" (October 8, 2016 - January 8, 2017) the Delaware Art Museum {{Cite web |url=http://www.delart.org/exhibits/elizabeth-osborne-the-sixties/ |title=Elizabeth Osborne: The Sixties : Delaware Art Museum |access-date=2017-11-15 |archive-date=2017-11-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116040631/http://www.delart.org/exhibits/elizabeth-osborne-the-sixties/ |url-status=dead }}
  • "Veils of Color: Juxtapositions and Recent Work by Elizabeth Osborne" (July 25 – November 15, 2015) the James A. Michener Art Museum {{Cite web |url=https://www.michenermuseum.org/exhibition/veils-of-color-juxtapositions-and-recent-work-by-elizabeth-osborne/?PHPSESSID=knl1arm4nda3g7bjvbp5ftpu11 |title=Exhibitions | James A. Michener Art MuseumJames A. Michener Art Museum |access-date=2017-11-15 |archive-date=2017-11-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116030805/https://www.michenermuseum.org/exhibition/veils-of-color-juxtapositions-and-recent-work-by-elizabeth-osborne/?PHPSESSID=knl1arm4nda3g7bjvbp5ftpu11 |url-status=usurped }}
  • "The Artist in the Garden" (2015), Michener Art Museum{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150216111338/http://www.michenermuseum.org/exhibition/the-artist-in-the-garden The Artist in the Garden, Michener Art Museum]}}
  • "Luminous Gestures" (2013), Locks Gallery, solo exhibition {{Cite web |url=http://www.locksgallery.com/exhibits_works.php?eid=162 |title=Luminous Gestures at Locks Gallery |access-date=2015-03-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402203117/http://www.locksgallery.com/exhibits_works.php?eid=162 |archive-date=2015-04-02 |url-status=dead }}
  • "The Color of Light" (2012), the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts solo career-survey curated by Robert Cozzolino with accompanying monograph publication
  • "The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World", (2012) The Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts[https://www.pafa.org/exhibitions/female-gaze-women-artists-making-their-world PAFA: The Female Gaze]
  • "Flirting with Abstraction," (2012) Woodmere Art Museum {{Cite web |url=http://woodmereartmuseum.org/exhibition/flirting-with-abstraction-modern-and-contemporary-art-of-philadelphia/ |title=Woodmere Art Museum: Flirting with Abstraction |access-date=2015-03-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402133044/http://woodmereartmuseum.org/exhibition/flirting-with-abstraction-modern-and-contemporary-art-of-philadelphia/ |archive-date=2015-04-02 |url-status=dead }}
  • "Narcissus in the Studio: Portraits and Self Portraits" (2011) the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts {{Cite web |url=https://www.pafa.org/narcissus-studio-artist-portraits-and-self-portraits |title=PAFA: Narcissus |access-date=2015-03-07 |archive-date=2015-04-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402132451/https://www.pafa.org/narcissus-studio-artist-portraits-and-self-portraits |url-status=dead }}
  • Elizabeth Osborne: Floating Landscapes 1971-79 (2006) Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, solo exhibition {{Cite web |url=http://www.locksgallery.com/exhibits_works.php?eid=47 |title=Floating Landscapes at Locks Gallery |access-date=2015-03-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402142629/http://www.locksgallery.com/exhibits_works.php?eid=47 |archive-date=2015-04-02 |url-status=dead }}
  • "Elizabeth Osborne: Recent Prints", (2005) solo exhibition at the Print Center in Philadelphia [http://www.printcenter.org/pc_exhibition_past.html#2005 The Print Center: Past Exhibitions 2005]
  • ''Four Visions/Four Painters: Murray Dessner, Bruce Samuelson, Elizabeth Osborne and Vincent Desiderio" (2004) Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art,{{Cite web |url=http://news.ursinus.edu/2012/ursinus-news-events/four-painters-are-the-focus-of-berman-exhibition/ |title=Ursinus College: Four Visions/Four Painters |access-date=2015-03-07 |archive-date=2015-04-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402090000/http://news.ursinus.edu/2012/ursinus-news-events/four-painters-are-the-focus-of-berman-exhibition/ |url-status=dead }}
  • "The Modern Still Life: Drawings, Watercolors, and Collages from the Collection" (1992), Philadelphia Museum of Art[http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/1992/536.html PMA: The Modern Still Life]
  • "Elizabeth Osborne: Paintings and Watercolors" (1976) solo exhibition at Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia {{Cite web |url=http://www.locksgallery.com/artists/bio/locksCvOsborne.pdf |title=Locks Gallery CV |access-date=2015-03-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403063323/http://www.locksgallery.com/artists/bio/locksCvOsborne.pdf |archive-date=2015-04-03 |url-status=dead }}

Recognition

In 2013, Osborne received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.{{cite web|url=https://www.pafa.org/sites/default/files/media-assets/PAFA_AnnualReport3_21_14.pdf |title= PAFA 2013 Annual Report}} In 1968, she received a prestigious Rosenthal Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and in 1964 was a Fulbright Scholar in Paris, France.[http://www.artoftheprint.com/artistpages/osborne_elizabeth_auguststilllife.htm Art of the Print]

References

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External links

  • [http://www.whyy.org/tv12/fridayarts/art201110.html Elizabeth Osborne and curator Robert Cozzolino on WHYY]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20150402131524/http://wrti.org/post/painter-elizabeth-osbourne-pafa Elizabeth Osborne on WRTI discussing her career survey "The Color of Light" at PAFA]
  • [https://www.pafa.org/elizabeth-osborne-color-light The Color of Light at PAFA] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621143502/https://www.pafa.org/elizabeth-osborne-color-light |date=2018-06-21 }}

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