biografía de Frances RICH (1910-?)

Lugar de nacimiento: Spokane, WA

Direcciones: Santa Barbara, CA; Palm Desert, CA

Profesión: Sculptor, photographer

Estudios: Smith College (B.A., 1931); sculpture with Malvina Hoffman & frescoes with Angel Zarraga, Paris, France, 1933-35; Beaux Art Acad.; Boston Mus. Sch., 1935-36, with Alexander Jacovleff; Cranbrook Acad. Art, 1937-40, sculpture with Carl Mills; Claremont College, 1946, with Millard Sheets.

Exposiciones: WFNY, 1939; Am. Acad. Des., NY, 1936; Cranbrook Acad. Art, 1938-39; Santa Barbara Mus. Art, 1941-42, 1952 (solo); Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, 1946; CPLH, 1955 (solo & retrospective); Palm Springs Desert Mus., 1969 (solo); Calif. Religious Artist, De Young Mem. Mus., 1952 (solo); Lenten Exh. Liturgical Arts, Denver Art Mus., 1955 (solo).

Asociaciones: Arch. Lg. NY; Cranbrook Acad. Art (alumna)

Obra: Purdue Univ.; Santa Barbara Mus. Art; Smith College; marble portrait bust of Alice Stone Blackwell, Boston Pub. Lib.; "Nude Bronze," Palm Springs (CA) Desert Mus.; St Catherhine of Sienna, lib. entrance, Santa Catalina Sch., Monterey, CA; "Christ Crucified," Coll. Father Edward Boyle, Holy Trinity Church, Bremerton, WA. Commissions: Army Navy Nurse, Arlington (VA) Nat. Cemetery, 1938; bronze bas relief Nunc Dimittis, comn. by Mr. & Mrs. James Coonan, St. Peters Episcopal Church, Redwood City, CA, 1955; bronze Our Lady of Combermere, Madonna House, Ontario, 1956; bronze bust of Katherine Hepburn, Am. Shakespeare Festival Theatre, Stratford, CT, 1960; bronze St. Francis of Assisi, St Margarets Episcopal Church, Palm Desert, 1970 & Pierce College, Athens, Greece, 1971

Comentarios: Preferred medium: bronze.

Fuentes: WW73; WW47; articles, Liturgical Arts Quarterly; also in newspapers.