Evelyn Metzger
{{Short description|American modernist painter (1911–2007)}}
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Evelyn Borchard Metzger (1911 - 2007) was an American modernist painter.
Life
Metzger was born in New York City in 1911. She studied at the Art Students League of New York with George Bridgman. She graduated from Vassar College; then she studied with Sally James Farnham and George Grosz, and Raphael Soyer. {{Cite web |title=EVELYN METZGER |url=http://www.papillongallery.com/evelyn_metzger_7.html |access-date=December 20, 2022 |website=www.papillongallery.com}}
She lived in South America for many years, where she worked with Bolivian painter Cecilio Guzmán de Rojas.{{Cite web |title=Evelyn Borchard Metzger papers, 1959-1968 {{!}} Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution |url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/evelyn-borchard-metzger-papers-7980 |access-date=December 20, 2022 |website=www.aaa.si.edu |language=en}}
She has participated in numerous group shows in museums and held several solo shows.{{Cite book |last1=Mather |first1=Frank Jewett |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SsEzAQAAIAAJ&q=Evelyn+Metzger+artist |title=Evelyn Metzger's Central Park |last2=Sherman |first2=Frederic Fairchild |date=1997 |publisher=Art in America |language=en}} She had exhibitions at Gallerie Bellechasse,{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8JEMAQAAIAAJ&q=Evelyn+Metzger+artist |title=The Connoisseur: An Illustrated Magazine for Collectors |date=1963 |publisher=Sampson Low, Marston & Company |language=en}} Papillon Gallery, Palmer Gallery,{{Cite web |last=Artdaily |title=The Palmer Gallery Presents Voyages: The Art of Evelyn Metzger |url=https://artdaily.cc/news/31586/The-Palmer-Gallery-Presents-Voyages--The-Art-of-Evelyn-Metzger |access-date=December 20, 2022 |website=artdaily.cc |language=English}} and Johnson Museum of Art.{{Cite web |title=Evelyn Metzger's Mardi Gras {{!}} Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art |url=https://museum.cornell.edu/exhibitions/evelyn-metzgers-mardi-gras |access-date=December 20, 2022 |website=museum.cornell.edu}} Her works are in the National Museum of Women in the Arts collection. She donated artwork to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.{{Cite book |last1=Liedtke |first1=Walter A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jtnQ7PIT8mcC&dq=Evelyn+Metzger+artist&pg=PA370 |title=Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art |date=2007 |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |isbn=978-1-58839-273-2 |language=en}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zoM2KmG_ndgC&dq=Evelyn+Metzger+artist&pg=PA214 |title=The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide |last1=Montebello |first1=Philippe De |date=1994 |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |isbn=978-0-87099-710-5 |language=en}} and Brooklyn Museum.{{Cite web |title=Brooklyn Museum |url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/103738 |access-date=December 20, 2022 |website=www.brooklynmuseum.org}}
Further reading
- {{Cite book |last=Topping |first=Brett |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31331526 |title=The age of grandeur and a woman who lived it : artist Evelyn Metzger |date=1995 |publisher=National Museum of Women in the Arts |others=Evelyn Borchard Metzger, Nancy Heller |isbn=0-940979-29-2 |location=Washington, D.C. |oclc=31331526}}{{Cite journal |last=Simpson |first=Pamela |date=1998 |title=Review of Inside Looking out: The Life and Art of Gina Knee; The Age of Grandeur and the Woman Who Lived It: Artist Evelyn Metzger |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1358413 |journal=Woman's Art Journal |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=56–57 |doi=10.2307/1358413 |jstor=1358413 |issn=0270-7993}}
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Category:American women artists
Category:Art Students League of New York alumni
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