biografía de Edgar CORBRIDGE (1901-1988)

Lugar de nacimiento: Longbridge, Lancashire, Eng.

Lugar de defunción: Portsmouth, RI

Direcciones: (Emigrated to U.S. c. 1913) Active in Provincetown, MA

Profesión: Painter

Estudios: self-taught (began as a sign painter)

Exposiciones: Newport (RI) AA, 1940-44, 1945 (solo), 1950; Portland (Me.) Soc. A., 1940-46; Providence AC, 1940-51; Armour Gallery, Providence (RI), 1940, 1945 (solo); All. A. Amer. 1941-45 (prize, 1943); Provincetown AA and Mus., 1941-46; Providence WCC, 1941-47; Springfield (Mass.) A. Lg., annuals, 1941-51; Academy All. A., 1941; Wash., D.C., WCC, 1941-44; Audubon Artists Soc., 1942-53; Gloucester Soc. A., 1942; New Haven PCC, 1942; Baltimore WCC, 1942; NYWCC, 1942-48, 1953; RISD, annual exh. of Rhode Island Artists, 1943-45;AIC, 1943, 1946; Bridgeport (Conn.) Art Lg., 1944-45 (hon. men.); Worcester Mus. A., 1948; Boston Festival of Arts, Boston Garden, 1952; Watercolor Exh., NAC, 1952; Provincetown AA, 1964; AWCS; Providence AA; South County AA; Wickford (RI) AA; North Shore AA; Shore Gal., Boston and Provincetown; Margaret Brown Gal., Boston

Asociaciones: AWCS; NYWCC; Provincetown AA and Mus.; Providence WCC; Providence AC; Providence AA; South County AA; Wickford (RI) AA; Newport (RI) AA; Springfield (Mass.) A. Lg.; Gloucester Soc. A.; North Shore AA; All. A. Amer.; Audubon Artists Soc.

Obra: Provincetown AA and Mus.; Providence AC; Newport (RI) AA; RISD; Boston Museum of Fine Arts, AWCS; Springfield (Mass.) A. Lg.; Dartmouth College; and private collections.

Comentarios: Precisionist artist. Painted summers in the Boothbay Harbor (Maine) area while residing winters near Providence, RI, c. 1935-45. After the outbreak of WWII, he began painting in Provincetown, Mass.

Fuentes: WW47; Kuchta and Seckler, Provincetown Painters, 280; add'l info., including exhibitions, courtesy Selma Koss Holtz, Waban, Mass.