Frances Myers (artist)

Frances Julia Myers (16 April 1936 – 17 December 2014) was an American printmaker.

Frances Myers
Myers in 1988
Born(1936-04-16)April 16, 1936
Racine, WI
DiedDecember 17, 2014(2014-12-17) (aged 78)
Madison, Wisconsin
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
Known forPrintmaking

Myers was born on April 16, 1936 in Racine, Wisconsin.[1] [2] She studied at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whre she earned a BS and an MFA.[3] She taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for 25 years.[4] Myers died on December 17, 2014 in Madison, Wisconsin.[1]

In 2016 the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art presented a posthumous retrospective of her work.[4][5] Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[6] the Davidson Art Center,[7] and the Brooklyn Museum.[8]

References

  1. "Frances Myers". MOWA Online Archive. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  2. "Frances Myers | MOWA Online Archive". wisconsinart.org.
  3. "Frances Myers". RoGallery. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  4. "Compassionate Eye: The Art of Frances Myers". MMoCA.
  5. Worland, Gayle. "The 'compassionate' eye of Frances Myers". madison.com.
  6. "Frances Myers | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu.
  7. "Frances Myers - DAC Collection Search - Davison Art Center - Wesleyan University". dac-collection.wesleyan.edu.
  8. "Brooklyn Museum". www.brooklynmuseum.org.
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