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Philadelphia painter Edna Andrade died
By libby
April 27, 2008 · 6 Comments
Edna Andrade, Color Motion, oil on canvas,h: 36 x w: 36 in. I took the picture of Locks Gallery’s artnet page, which means it’s available for purchase.
Wow. I discovered in today’s paper that Edna Andrade had died–April 17. I must have missed the obit. There’s an appreciation of her in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer, by Ed Sozanski. Here’s the link. That she earned and retained credibility and admiration in what was a thoroughly male art world speaks all the more loudly to her excellence. Nor did she retire and go quietly into that good night. She kept on painting into old age. I’m filled with admiration.
If you search the pages of artblog for Andrade, you will find she comes up again and again as art historical context, as underappreciated and as far too invisible. Yet we all know how great she is. What’s that about?
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Thanks for posting this. I’m embarrassed to say I had never heard of her until this post. I just checked out her work on artnet and it’s great.
Thanks for posting this. I’m embarrassed to say I had never heard of her until this post. I just checked out her work on artnet and it’s great.
Thanks for posting this. I’m embarrassed to say I had never heard of her until this post. I just checked out her work on artnet and it’s great.
Hi, there, your embarrassment is exactly my point. She’s been underexposed.
Good luck with your blog.
I saw a great retrospective of her work last year at the Woodmere Art Museum. Had never seen or heard of her work before that,and it was a nice surprise when In walked in. The exhibit was really interesting because some of the work was dated in that it looked like the era when it was made (60′s pop art for example), but most of the work was still fresh as if it were painted yesterday. There were over 50 paintings and drawings. I have the catalog, perhaps it’s still available at the Museum.
Thanks for the info, I didn’t know she had died.
Hi, Joanie, thanks for sharing that experience. I think the catalog information might be useful, too.