Chandler, Fay

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Artist Fay Martin Chandler was born in 1923. She graduated from Sweet Briar College in Amherst, Virginia (B.A. 1943), and the following year married Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., a Harvard College graduate who went on to become a professor of business history at the Harvard Business School. They had four children. Fay Chandler studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and earned an M.F.A. in painting in 1967 from the Maryland Institute of Art. She was a founder of the Art Connection, a Boston-based organization that places artwork in local hospitals, halfway houses, and schools. Chandler has had over 30 solo exhibitions and her work is included in the collections at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia.

From the description of Papers of Fay Chandler, 1935-2004 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 421762394

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