Alice baber biography

Alice Baber (August 22, 1928 – October 2, 1982) was an American abstract expressionist painter who worked in oil and watercolor.
Alice Baber was an American abstract expressionist painter who worked in oil and watercolor.
Alice Baber, an influential figure in Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting, is celebrated for her luminous works that explore color and motion.

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Alice Baber | New York Collaboration with Leslie Feely Gallery

Alice was born in 1928 in rural Illinois and, until gas rationing began in World War II, grew up spending winters with her family in Miami, Florida. After a mid-western education, Baber moved to New York in 1951 and met many of the abstract expressionists at the Cedar Bar and The Club. From 1959-1968, she spent half of every year in Paris, France, and exhibited across Europe and in Asia. A world traveler, by the 1970s, she toured for the U.S. government, showing her art across Latin America. She is said to have been “always imaginative.” Baber later spoke about “color memory, that anything that you remember well you remember in very vivid color, and anything that’s particularly sort of gloomy becomes very gray.… My most interesting memories are in very brilliant color.” Baber wrote poetry and prose. Her published writings include essays on color in the 1970s and on Sonia Delaunay, whom she met in Paris. Baber was often featured in the New York Times and in major art publications. On December 29, 1978, the New York Ti

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Alice Baber

PINK SHADOW OF THE HERMIT, oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches

WAYWARD SWING, oil on canvas, 30x40 inches

UNTITLED, watercolor on paper, 22 x 30 IN unframed, 33.5 x 41.5 IN unframed

ALICE BABER (1928-1982)

Abstract painter, lithographer, and feminist Alice Baber specialized in paintings of ovals, circles, and free forms that extolled the radiance of color. Born August 22, 1928, in Charleston, Illinois, the artist was dogged by ill health as a child, forced to spend her winters in Florida to escape the harsh northern winters. Cancer would claim her on October 2, 1982, in New York City at the relatively young age of fifty-four. She is buried in Fairview Cemetery in Edgar County, Illinois.

Baber began her art studies early to compensate for a shortened life, studying drawing as an eight-year-old and taking a college class by age twelve. She attended Lindenwood College in Missouri

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Alice Baber

American abstract expressionist painter (1928 - 1982)

For the American engraver and artist, see Alice Barber Stephens.

Alice Baber (August 22, 1928 – October 2, 1982) was an American abstract expressionist painter who worked in oil and watercolor. She was educated in the United States and in the 1950s and 1960s she studied and lived in Paris. She also traveled around the world.^[1] Baber, a feminist,^[2] organized exhibits of women artists' work.^[1]

Early life

Baber was born in Charleston, Illinois. She grew up in Kansas, Illinois and Miami, Florida.^[3] Her family traveled south to Florida in the winters at a doctor's suggestion because of Alice's poor health, starting around the age of two.^[3] She was interested in becoming an artist from an early age. Baber remembers that around age five she decided she would either be a "poet or painter."^[3] At age eight, she was formally studying drawing and by age twelve became "so advanced she was enrolled in a college-level class."^[2]

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