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March 15, 2017 - Marissa Kessenich

In the Galleries: Elizabeth Olds’s quest for honest American art

Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: 1939 AD, Elizabeth Olds, Federal Arts Project, Flop House, Great Depression, Guggenheim, José Clemente Orozco, lithography, Omaha World Tribune, Roosevelt, Salvation Army Shelter, satire, social realism, visual art

Elizabeth Olds (1896–1991) was the first woman visual artist to be awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1926 to advance her study of portraiture.

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