Isabel Case Borgatta
{{Short description|American sculptor, 1921-2017}}
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| birth_name = Isabel Marie Case
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1921|11|21|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Madison, Wisconsin
| death_date = {{death date and age|2017|4|10|1921|11|21|mf=y}}
| death_place = New York, New York
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| field = Sculpture
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| spouse = Robert Borgatta
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| alma_mater = Smith College
Yale University
| website = {{URL|isabelcaseborgatta.com}}
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Isabel Case Borgatta (November 21, 1921 - April 4, 2017) was an American sculptor.
Life
Borgatta née Case was born on November 21, 1921, in Madison, Wisconsin.{{cite web |title=Isabel Case Borgatta |url=https://bentonart.uconn.edu/artist-maker/info/1634?sort=3 |website=Benton Art Collection |access-date=24 November 2024}} She attended Smith College and Yale University.{{cite web |title=Isabel Case Borgatta |url=https://www.westvillageoriginals.com/2015/06/01/isabel-case-borgatta/ |website=West Village Originals |access-date=24 November 2024 |date=1 June 2015}} She also studied with Jose de Creeft.{{cite web |title=Isabel Case Borgatta papers, 1939-1978 |url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/isabel-case-borgatta-papers-6770/biographical-note |website=Archives of American Art |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=25 November 2024}} She married fellow artist Robert Borgatta{{cite web |title=ROBERT BORGATTA WEDS ISABEL CASE; Painter Marries Yale School of Fine Arts Alumna Her Sisters Are Attendants |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1948/04/25/archives/robert-borgatta-weds-isabel-casei-painter-marries-yale-school-of.html |website=New York Times |access-date=24 November 2024}} with whom she had three children.
Case was the recipient of MacDowell fellowships in 1968, 1973 and 1974.{{cite web |title=Isabel Borgatta - Artist |url=https://www.macdowell.org/artists/isabel-borgatta |website=MacDowell |access-date=24 November 2024 |language=en}} she was a founding member of the organization Women in the Arts and a contributor to Women Artists News, a 1970s feminist newsletter.{{cite web |last1=Weisbord |first1=Mimi |last2=Haber |first2=Ira Joel |last3=McGee |first3=Barbara |last4=Seigel |first4=Judy |last5=Marxer |first5=Donna |last6=Jurinek |first6=Jerilyn |last7=Borgatta |first7=Isabel Case |last8=Stevens |first8=May |title=Women Artists Newsletter: Women Artists Newsletter |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.28046882 |website=Open JSTOR Collection. |access-date=24 November 2024}}
She died on April 10, 2017, at the Westbeth Artists Community in New York City.{{cite web |title=Isabel Case Borgatta ’44BFA {{!}} Obituaries |url=https://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/obituaries/3405-isabel-case-borgatta-44bfa |website=Yale Alumni Magazine |access-date=24 November 2024}} Her work is in the collection of the William Benton Museum of Art and the Krannert Art Museum,{{cite web |title=Naiad |url=https://collection.kam.illinois.edu/objects-1/portfolio?records=25&query=Portfolios%20%3D%20%22372%22%20and%20Disp_Maker_1%20%3D%20%22Isabel%20Case%20Borgatta%22&sort=0 |website=Krannert Art Museum - Women Artists |access-date=24 November 2024}} and The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery.{{cite web |title=Isabel Case Borgatta |url=https://tang.skidmore.edu/collection/artist/2031-isabel-case-borgatta?per=90 |website=Tang Teaching Museum |access-date=25 November 2024 |language=en}}
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Category:Artists from Madison, Wisconsin
Category:American modern sculptors
Category:20th-century American women sculptors
Category:20th-century American sculptors