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Ceramic tile gifted by Metzger to the Brooklyn Museum

Evelyn Borchard Metzger (1911 - 2007) was an American modernist painter.

Life

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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. [1]

She lived in South America for many years, where she worked with Bolivian painter Cecilio Guzmán de Rojas.[2]

She has participated in numerous group shows in museums and held several solo shows.[1][3] She had exhibitions at Gallerie Bellechasse,[4] Papillon Gallery, [1] Palmer Gallery,[5] and Johnson Museum of Art.[6] Her works are in the National Museum of Women in the Arts collection. She donated artwork to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[7][8] and Brooklyn Museum.[9]

Further reading

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  • Topping, Brett (1995). The age of grandeur and a woman who lived it : artist Evelyn Metzger. Evelyn Borchard Metzger, Nancy Heller. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of Women in the Arts. ISBN 0-940979-29-2. OCLC 31331526.[10]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "EVELYN METZGER". www.papillongallery.com. Retrieved December 20, 2022.
  2. ^ "Evelyn Borchard Metzger papers, 1959-1968 | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution". www.aaa.si.edu. Retrieved December 20, 2022.
  3. ^ Mather, Frank Jewett; Sherman, Frederic Fairchild (1997). Evelyn Metzger's Central Park. Art in America.
  4. ^ The Connoisseur: An Illustrated Magazine for Collectors. Sampson Low, Marston & Company. 1963.
  5. ^ Artdaily. "The Palmer Gallery Presents Voyages: The Art of Evelyn Metzger". artdaily.cc. Retrieved December 20, 2022.
  6. ^ "Evelyn Metzger's Mardi Gras | Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art". museum.cornell.edu. Retrieved December 20, 2022.
  7. ^ Liedtke, Walter A. (2007). Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 978-1-58839-273-2.
  8. ^ Montebello, Philippe De (1994). The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 978-0-87099-710-5.
  9. ^ "Brooklyn Museum". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved December 20, 2022.
  10. ^ Simpson, Pamela (1998). "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". Woman's Art Journal. 19 (2): 56–57. doi:10.2307/1358413. ISSN 0270-7993. JSTOR 1358413.
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