Maude Kerns

Maude Irvine Kerns
Maude Kerns
Born(1876-08-01)August 1, 1876
DiedAugust 19, 1965(1965-08-19) (aged 89)
Eugene, Oregon, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Oregon,
San Francisco Art Institute
Columbia University
MovementAvant-garde

Maude Irvine Kerns (August 1, 1876 – August 19, 1965) was an American artist and art educator, known for her avant-garde paintings. Her works were exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum, National Gallery of Art, and the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles,[1] and earned Kerns considerable notoriety among the abstract art movement in New York. She later taught art at the University of Oregon as well as at high schools in Corvallis and Seattle, Washington before her death in 1965.[2]

  1. ^ Denison, Paul (1988-08-12). "Kerns Art Center to Honor its Namesake". The Eugene Register-Guard. Showcase. p. 3D.
  2. ^ Trenton, Patricia; D'Emilio, Sandra (1995). Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945. University of California Press. pp. 126–130. ISBN 978-0520202030.