Edith Bry

Edith Bry
Edith Bry and Maurice Benjamin
Photo of Edith Bry and her husband, Maurice Benjamin, undated photo taken in the library of their apartment on Central Park West
Born(1898-11-30)November 30, 1898
St. Louis, Missouri
DiedJanuary 19, 1991(1991-01-19) (aged 92)
New York, New York
Resting placeMount Pleasant Cemetery, Hawthorne, New York
Known forArtist

Edith Bry (1898–1991) was an American painter, printmaker, and glass artist. During her long career she combined technical skill with an impulse to innovate. Critics noted her versatility, pointing to skill in handling oil painting, lithography, etching, drawing, watercolor, and wood carving. Her style ranged from realist to abstract and from what one critic called a "discipline of an inner reticence" to a "more dynamic emotional expressionism."[1] Her early-career still lifes drew praise and a figure-group called "Exiles" received much attention following its acquisition by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her mid-career work was more expressive and abstract as she tried, as she put it, to rid herself "from the tyranny of nature."[2] At the end of her career she was particularly known for semi-abstract work in glass and enamel, mainly of religious subjects.

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