Galerie Molinas

She was one of artistic hearts of the of Mystic area,  Connecticut, wher she lived and taught graphic arts in a local school, while traversing the world with its sketching notebooks of drawings, that she translated on canvas when return home. Mrs Cumming and Leontyne camprubi,left theirs traces on this part of U.S.A. We possess three works by that artist, a scene of the old port of Marseilles done in the fourties, a still life in the flowers, and a marine scene, close to Providence, U.S.A.

Biographie (Y) 

Birth place - Née à : Brooklyn, NY

Death place - Décédée: Uncasville, CT

Addresses: Uncasville, CT

Profession:Peintre Graveur, Professeur - Painter, etcher, teacher

Studied Étudia au : ASL; Pratt Inst., grad.; also study in France.

Expositions - Exhibited: S.Indp.A., 1928; AIC, 1930, 1942; PAFA, 1931, 1953; Salons of Am., 1932, 1934; Springfield, MA, 1936 (prize); fellowship, MacDowell Colony, NH, 1936 (prize), 1938 (prize), 1943 (prize), 1944 (prize); Corcoran Gal, 1937; Bok Fnd. Fellowship, 1939 (prize), 1940 (prize); Hartford, CT, 1939 (prize), 1941 (prize); WMAA, 1938, 1952; WFNY, 1939; Syracuse Mus. FA, 1945; Four Arts Club; Springfield Mus. FA, 1946; Guy Mayer Gal., 1942 (solo); Contemporary Arts Gal., 1946 (solo); Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, 1939, 1940, 1944; Connecticut College (solo); New Gallery, 1946 (solo); NYC (solo); Mystic (CT) Art Assn., 1956 (solo); Lyman Allyn Mus., 1968 (retrospective).

Mambre du - Member: Mystic Art Assn. (membership director, 15 yrs); Essex Art Assn.; Am. Artists; Conn. WC; AWCS; NAWA

Work -Oeuvra: Lyman Allyn Mus., New London, CT; Syracuse (NY) Mus. Fine Arts; Connecticut College, New London; LOC

Commentaire - Comments: Teaching: Parsons School Design & School Visual Arts, NYC; director, young peoples' art program & adult classes, Lyman Allyn Mus. (Anthony White cites death year as 1974. Clark Marlor cites death place as nearby Montville, CT.)

Sources: WW73; WW47; Art in Conn.: Between World Wars



Cette biographie est extraite du ' Who Was Who in American Art ', l'ouvrage de référence sur la vie culturelle aux Etats-Unis.