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Valerie Dutton Hollister
Born
Valerie Dutton

(1939-12-29) December 29, 1939 (age 84)
Oakland, California, U.S.
Other namesValerie Hollister
EducationSan Francisco Art Institute
Alma materStanford University
SpouseRobinson G. Hollister (m. 1964–)

Valerie Dutton Hollister (née Valerie Dutton; born 1939) is an American artist, known for her paintings, printmaking, and artist books. She frequently has used computer technology in aspects of her work.[1]

Biography

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Valerie Dutton Hollister was born December 29, 1939, in Oakland, California; to parents Betty (née Hines) and Gayle R. Dutton.[2][3] Hollister was raised in Spokane, Washington and Palo Alto, California; where her parents had been active in the founding of St. Mark's Episcopal Church.[3][4] She graduated from Lewis and Clark High School in Spokane.[4]

She studied at Stanford University, receiving an A.B. degree in 1961 and a M.A. degree in 1965.[2] In 1964, she married Robinson G. Hollister, a classmate from Stanford University who became an economics professor.[4][5] She took additional art classes at San Francisco Art Institute,[2] and studied in Paris.[2] In the late 1960s, she was working in Washington, D.C. and was tangential associated with the Washington Color School.[6] Hollister moved to Swarthmore, Pennsylvania in 1971.[1][7]

In 1968, Hollister was featured in Mademoiselle magazine in the article, "For Art's Sake".[8] In the 1970s, Hollister was working with portraits in a flat, reduced form.[9]

In 1966, she showed her work alongside artist Eric Rudd at Jefferson Place Gallery. In 1967, her work was part of the Corcoran Gallery of Arts' juried group exhibit, the 30th Corcoran Biennial;[10][11][6] and she was included in the 1967 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting at the Whitney Museum of American Art.[12][13]

Hollister has work in public museum collections, including at the Victoria and Albert Museum,[14] and Williams College Museum of Art.[15]

References

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  1. ^ a b Donohoe, Victoria (14 March 2004). "Artist Merges Creativity With Computers". Newspapers.com. The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. L03. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  2. ^ a b c d Collins, Jim (1980). Women Artists in America: 18th Century to the Present (1790-1980). Apollo. p. 1975. ISBN 978-0-938290-00-1.
  3. ^ a b "Dutton, Betty Hines". SFGATE. 2002-11-12. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  4. ^ a b c "Miss Dutton, R. Hollister Are Married". Newspapers.com. The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington). October 27, 1964. p. 8. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  5. ^ "Interview with emeritus Professor Robinson Hollister". www.swarthmore.edu. 2020-06-12. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  6. ^ a b "Andrew Hudson on Gene Davis, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Thomas Downing, Paul Reed, Rockne Krebs, Howard Mehring and more, Corcoran Gallery of Art". Artforum.com. March 1968. Retrieved 2021-09-02.
  7. ^ "Valerie Hollister - Biography". Askart.com. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  8. ^ "Valerie Hollister to be Featured In Mademoiselle". Newspapers.com. The Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin). 24 October 1968. p. 23. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  9. ^ Edwards, Ellen (24 June 1977). "Old Struggle: Lyrical and Geometric". Newspapers.com. The Miami Herald. p. 52. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  10. ^ Gibian, Cay (18 August 1967). "Art, Corcoran Biennial". Newspapers.com. The Ithaca Journal. p. 3. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  11. ^ The Forty-fifth Biennial: The Corcoran Collects,1907-199 (exhibition). David C. Levy (introduction), Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art. 1998. p. 52. ISBN 088675-056-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  12. ^ "1967 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting". whitney.org. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  13. ^ Donohoe, Victoria (30 Jun 2002). "Exploring The World of Dreams". Newspapers.com. The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. CC03. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  14. ^ "Seven computer landscapes: Hollister, Valerie". Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  15. ^ "Butterfly (1979)". Williams College Museum of Art. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
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