Alice Baber

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Alice Baber (August 22, 1928 - October 2, 1982) was an American abstract expressionist painter who worked in oils and watercolor.

Alice was born in Charleston, Illinois. She grew up in Kansas, Illinois and Miami, Florida, her family traveled south to Florida yearly because of Alice poor health. They settled in Illinois when World War II started. She was interseted in becoming an artist from an early age and choose to study art when she attended Lindenwood College for Women in Missouri and at Indiana University. She also studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and lived in Paris throughout the late 1950s and 1960s. She was briefly married to painter Paul Jenkins, the union lasted from 1964 to 1968.

The Baber Midwest Modern Art Collection of the Greater Lafayette Museum of Art in Indiana and the Alice Baber Memorial Art Library in East Hampton are both named in her honor. Numerous major galleries in the United States own her works including the Guggenheim, Whitney, Metropolitan, and the Museum of Modern Art.

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• Smithsonian Archives of American Art. Interview with Alice Baber Conducted by Paul Cummings, May 24, 1973
• Baber Family Tree. Alice Baber