Magnolia Blossoms
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Object Details
- Date
- ca. 1935-1941
- Artist
- Josephine Joy, born North River Mills, WV 1869-died Peoria, IL 1948
- Gallery Label
- Josephine Joy grew up on an Illinois farm, where she loved to sketch birds, trees, and flowers. Circumstances prevented her from following her artistic calling until 1927, after her children were grown and her husband had died. Joy lived in California then, and the WPA's California Art Project afforded her the opportunity to work gainfully as an artist. In the 1930s, "non-academic" painters were increasingly celebrated alongside their professional peers. By the early 1940s, Joy was a nationally acclaimed painter whose work had been featured in a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
- Topic
- Still life\flower\magnolia
- New Deal\Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project\California
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- On View
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1st Floor, West Wing
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from General Services Administration
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Object number
- 1971.447.44
- Type
- Painting
- Folk Art
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 36 1/8 x 40 1/8 in. (91.8 x 101.9 cm.)
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- saam_1971.447.44