ALICE BABER
About the Artist
Alice Baber (August 22, 1928 – October 2, 1982) was an American abstract expressionist painter who worked in oil and watercolor. She was educated in the United States and in the 1950s and 1960s she studied and lived in Paris. She also traveled around the world. Baber, a feminist, organized exhibits of women artists' work
As a feminist painter, Alice Baber made notable contributions toward uplifting other women artists. Alice Baber spearheaded the organization of multiple exhibits intended to create platforms for women’s artwork. Notably, she produced "Color Forum" in 1972 at the University of Texas, in Austin, and "Color, Light, and Image," in 1975 in New York City at the Women's Interart Center.
Artist CV
SELECTED COLLECTIONS & MUSEUMS
Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria,
Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie, Indiana
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York
Jack S Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
Kolnischer Kunstverin Museum, Cologne, Germany
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida,
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
National Museum of Women in the Arts
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkanasas
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
Osaka National Museum of Art, Japan
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Solomon R Guggenheim Museum
Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, Indiana
The Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, Michigan
Wallrof Richartz Museum, Koln, Germany
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
Whitney Museum of American Art
Worcester Art Museum
Wright Museum, Beloit, Wisconsin