Jane Piper

Jane Piper
Jane Piper, 1935
Formal portrait, 1935[1]
Born
Jane Gibson Piper

(1916-08-21)August 21, 1916
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
DiedAugust 8, 1991(1991-08-08) (aged 74)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Resting placeThe Woodlands (Philadelphia)
NationalityAmerican
Spouse(s)E. Digby Baltzell (1915–1996), American sociologist

Jane Gibson Piper (1916–1991) was an American artist known for her abstract treatment of still lifes. Building on the French modernist tradition of Matisse and Cézanne, she gave color precedence over representation.[2] Shortly after her death a critic said "throughout her career Piper worked within a relatively narrow aesthetic range. She was interested in spatial organization and in creating space through color — concerns of another painter she admired, Henri Matisse. There's a sense of Matisse in her later work, but no indication that she was trying to imitate him; the resonance reflects shared concerns."[3] From her first exhibition in 1943 through the end of her life she was given a total of thirty-four solo exhibitions in Philadelphia, New York, and other East Coast galleries and her works have been collected by major museums including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the National Academy of Design, The Phillips Collection, and the Carnegie Museum of Art.[4]

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