biografía de Yeffe KIMBALL (1914-1978)

Lugar de nacimiento: Mountain Park, OK

Direcciones: NYC

Profesión: Abstract painter, curator

Estudios: ASL, 1935-39; study & work in France & Italy, 1936-39; also with Léger in Paris, France & NYC.

Exposiciones: WMAA, 1945; "First Nat. Exh. Am. Indian Painters", Philbrook A. Center, 1946-47 (hon. men.), 1951 (hon. men.), 1959 (1st prize); PAFA Ann., 1953; National Gal. Art, 1970; Smithsonian Inst, 1970; Princeton Univ., 1970; Northern Virginia Fine Arts, Alexandria, 1971; Trinity Col., Hartford, CT, 1971; Frank Rehn Gal., NYC, 1970s

Asociaciones: NAD; Nat. Cong. Am. Indian; AEA; Audubon Artists; Native North Am. Artists.

Obra: NGA; BMFA; Dayton Art Inst., OH; Portland Art Mus., OR; Norfolk Mus. Arts & Sci., VA.

Comentarios: Native American abstract painter active in Provincetown, MA, 1957-74. Positions: tech. adv., Americana Foundation, NYC, 1951-56; juror, Nat. Am. Indian Exhib., Scottsdale, Ariz., 1970; consult. & adv. to mus., publ., & US govt. on Indian history & art. Illustrator: "Story of the Totem Pole, 1951"; "Some People are Indians," 1956; "The World of Manaboze," 1965 (Vanguard Press); "The Story of the Pueblo Indians" (Caedmon Records, 1955); "The Art of American Indian Cooking" (Doubleday, 1965 & Avon Press, 1970). Teaching: Am. Forum Int'l. Study, spec. Am. Indian prog. Inst. Am. Indian Arts, Santa Fe, 1970; panel mem., Convocation Am. Indian Scholars, Princeton Univ., 1970. Collections arranged: expertised & catalogued 6,000 art objects of Pacific Northwest Coast Indians, Portland Art Mus., OR, 1949; Am. Indian Exhib., Mattuck Mus., Waterbury, CT, 1950; asst. on Northwest Indian Art Exhib., Brooklyn Mus., 1951; selected Am. Indian art objects for US Dept. State exhib. tour abroad, 1953; exhib. asst., Am. Indian Exhib., New Orleans, LA, 1964.

Fuentes: WW73; WW47; Provincetown Painters, 233; Falk, Exh. Record Series.