Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Josephine Joy


Magnolia Blossoms
Oil on canvas
36 1/8 x 40 1/8"
Ca. 1935 - 1941 


Aloes
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 1/8"
Ca. 1935 - 1938


Waterbirds Nesting
Oil on canvas
29 7/8 x 24"
Ca. 1935 - 1939




Trysting at Evening
Oil on fiberboard
29 3/4 x 24"
Ca. 1935 - 1939

San Diego Mission
Oil on fiberboard
39 3/4 x 48"
Ca. 1935 - 1939


Prisoner's Plea
Oil on fiberboard
23 7/8 x 28"
Ca. 1935 - 1937


Moufflon - Bobtailed Sheep
Oil on canvas
30 x 24"
Ca. 1935 - 1939

Irish Cottage
Oil on canvas
31 x 36 1/8"
Ca. 1935 - 1938


CCC Camp Balboa Park
Oil on canvas
18 1/8 x 24"
Ca. 1933 - 1937


Biographical information from the Smithsonian American Art Museum:
Josephine Hiett Joy was born near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, in 1869 and soon thereafter her family moved to Peoria, Illinois. After an early marriage that ended in divorce, she went to Chicago and subsequently married Frank Joy. She became interested in painting after they moved to San Diego. A prolific worker, she became a WPA artist in the late 1930s, which led to her first solo exhibition at the St. Etienne Gallery in New York City in 1943. Joy died in Peoria in 1948.

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