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ELLEN LANYON (1926-2013)
Untitled (Portrait of Virginia Zabriskie). Painted found tin box. 260x55 mm; 10 1/4x2 1/8 inches. Circa 1965.
Provenance: Gift from the artist to Virginia Zabriskie.
Lanyon was born and educated in Chicago. She received her early training in a work-study program at the Ox-Bow School of Art, in Saugatuck, Michigan, and at the Museum for the Contemporary Arts and the Art Institute Department of Prints and Drawings, Chicago. She spent the early years of her career in her hometown, where she was often identified with the Chicago Imagists and painted primarily modernist cityscapes and portraits. In the 1970s, Lanyon moved to New York and became a member of the Heresies Collective, which created Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics. Over the course of her career, Lanyon has had over seventy-five solo gallery exhibitions and eleven museum exhibitions, including three major traveling retrospectives. Her work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Brooklyn Museum; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Milwaukee Museum of Art; and the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, among others.
