Andrée Rexroth

Andrée Schafer Rexroth
self portrait
Born1902 (1902)
Chicago, Illinois
DiedSeptember 17, 1940(1940-09-17) (aged 37–38)[1]
San Francisco, California

Andrée Rexroth (1902 – 17 October 1940) was an American artist.

In the 1920s she married the poet Kenneth Rexroth. In 1927 the couple hitchhiked and camped their way from Indiana to San Francisco, California, where they settled.[2] In the 1930s she took part in the Works Progress Administration initiative to employ artists during the Great Depression.[3] In 1936 she was part of the group exhibition New Horizons in American Art at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.[4] She died from complications of an epileptic seizure in 1940, aged 38.[2] Following her death, Kenneth Rexroth wrote five poems in her memory.[5]

Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum[1] and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,[6]

References

  1. ^ a b "Andree Rexroth | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu.
  2. ^ a b Simins, Jill Weiss (16 May 2017). "Kenneth Rexroth: Poet, Pacifist, Radical, and Reluctant Father of the Beat Generation". The Indiana History Blog.
  3. ^ "WPA Artwork in Non-federal Repositories". U.S. General Services Administration, Public Building Service, Cultural and Environmental Affairs Division, Fine Arts program. 1996.
  4. ^ "Andrée Rexroth on MOMA Exhibition Spelunker". www.moma.org.
  5. ^ Rexroth, Kenneth (10 April 2012). In the Sierra: Mountain Writings. New Directions Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8112-1902-0.
  6. ^ "Andrée Schafer Rexroth". FAMSF Search the Collections. 21 September 2018.


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