Swan, Barbara, 1922-....

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Dates:
Birth 1922-06-23
Americans,

Biographical notes:

Swan, a painter, draftsman, and lithographer from Boston, Mass., was friends of Rosalind Miller, a professor of psychiatric social work at Columbia University, and Edwin Miller, a Walt Whitman scholar and biographer of Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Millers are collectors of American textiles.

From the description of Barbara Swan letters to Rosalind and Edwin Miller, 1961-1991. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81488088

Painter, printmaker; Brookline, Mass.

From the description of Barbara Swan interviews, 1973 June 13-1974 June 12 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80468450

Barbara Swan (1922- ) is a painter and printmaker from Brookline, Mass.

From the description of Oral history interview with Barbara Swan, 1973 June 13-1974 June 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646397597

Painter, illustrator, draftsman, and lithographer; Boston, Mass.

Studied at School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston under Karl Zerbe. Ellsworth Kelly was also a student there. Swan collaborated as an illustrator with poets Anne Sexton and Maxine Kumin.

From the description of Barbara Swan papers, 1927-1992. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81952743

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Subjects:

  • Art, American
  • Art
  • Draftsmen
  • Illustrators
  • Lithographers
  • Painters
  • Painters
  • Poets
  • Printmaker
  • Prints
  • Women artists
  • Women artists

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  • Massachusetts (as recorded)
  • Massachusetts--Boston (as recorded)
  • Massachusetts (as recorded)