Frances Kornbluth

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Frances Kornbluth (born 1920) is an American abstract expressionist painter.

To the City (1958), watercolor on paper

Biography

Red Rock, Green Sea (1962), oil on masonite

Frances Kornbluth was born in New York City on July 26, 1920.^[1] Originally intent on becoming a composer, Kornbluth graduated from Brooklyn College in 1940 with a degree in music; however, in the 1950s she focused her creative energies on painting. Kornbluth studied at the Brooklyn Museum Art School from 1955 to 1959, where she first met Reuben Tam, and went on to receive a master's degree from the Pratt Institute in 1962. It was Tam who first introduced Kornbluth to Monhegan Island and helped define her as an artist.^[2]

Works

Ocean: A View of Blackhead (1985), acrylic on paper

The natural environment has been the primary source of Kornbluth's inspiration, particularly that of Monhegan Island where she has summered and painted since 1959.^[3] Kornbluth continues to paint at her studio in Lobster Cove on Monhegan and at her studio in Northeastern Connecticut. Over the years she has worked in oil, pastel, acrylic, watercolor, ink and mixed media collage. Her work continues to be exhibited in both galleries and museums. Recent exhibits include:

"Collage: Piecing It Together" at the Portland Museum of Art (2010)
"On Island: Women Artists of Monhegan" at the University of New England (2007)
"Monhegan: The Abstracted Island" at the Bates College Museum of Art (2001)
"Overview: Four Decades" at the University of Connecticut (1996)

Awards

The Outsider (1959), casein and ink on toned paper

Lifetime Achievement Award, Brooklyn College (2000)
Miriam E. Halpern Memorial Award, National Association of Women Artists (1992)
John Carl Georgo Memorial Award, National Association of Women Artists (1989)
Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation Prize, National Association of Women Artists (1982)
Helen Henningson Memorial Prize for Oil, National Association of Women Artists (1977)
Charles H. Woodbury Prize for Landscape, National Association of Women Artists (1975)
Medal of Honor, National Association of Women Artists (1968)
The Elizabeth Rungius Fulda Memorial Prize for Lyrical Landscape, National Association of Women Artists (1968)
Catherine & Henry J. Gaisman Prize for Watercolor, National Association of Women Artists (1961)
Medal of Honor, National Association of Women Artists (1961)

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References

↑ Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor). Who Was Who in American Art,1564-1975. Madison: Sound View Press, 1999. p. 3724.
↑ McArdle, Maire. Frances Kornbluth: Explorations (2011).
↑ Harris, Patricia and David Lyon. "Painting on Maine's Monhegan Island." The Boston Globe August 27, 2006.

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Name	Kornbluth, Frances
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Short description	American artist
Date of birth	1920
Place of birth	New York, NY
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