biografía de Dorothy McIntosh COGSWELL (1909-2008)

Lugar de nacimiento: Plymouth, MA

Direcciones: South Hadley, MA

Profesión: Educator, lecturer, painter, illus, lithographer

Estudios: Yale Univ., B.F.A. & M.F.A.; Eugene Savage; Richard Miller; Edwin Taylor; Grace Cornell.

Exposiciones: New Haven PCC, 1929-45; NY WCS, 1932; AWCS, 1933, 1934, 1941; Phila. WCC, 1934; Meriden Lg. Arts & Crafts, 1936 (prize) 1937 (prize); CAFA, 1937, 1940-45; Bridgeport Art Lg., 1937 (prize); WFNY, 1939; Springfield Art Lg., 1940-46; Eastern States Exhib., 1941 (prize); Albany Inst. Hist. & Art, 1941-46; Smith Mus., Springfield (solo).

Asociaciones: Springfield Art Lg. (pres., 1942-43); New Haven PCC; Am. Assoc. Mus.; Mt. Holyoke Friends of Art (chairman, 1947-60); CAA; Mediaeval Acad. Am.

Obra: Springfield (MA) Mus. FA; Wisteriahurst, Holyoke Mus., MS; Newport AA; Squirrel Island (ME) Library. Commissions: Mt. Holyoke College Library (egg tempera mural), 1944, Buckland Hall, 1961 (acrylic mural) & Torrey Hall, 1963 ( acrylic mural relief).

Comentarios: Preferred media: watercolors, acrylics. Art interests: Renaissance and modern art. Positions: teacher, Mt. Holyoke College, 1939-; dir. collections, Mt. Holyoke College, 1970-. Awards: Fulbright lecturer, Nat. Art School, Sydney, Australia, 1957-58. Collections arranged: Caroline R. Hill Collection of Medieval and Renaissance Art. Illustrator: Doctor in Homespun," 1941. Author: "A Visitor's Impressions of Australian Art," Soc. Artists, Sydney, 1958; "Mt. Holyoke College Art Collection," College Art Journal, 1972.

Fuentes: WW73; WW47."