Ronnie Elliott (artist)
Ronnie Elliot | |
|---|---|
| Born | Ronnie Greenspan December 16, 1910 New York City |
| Died | May 22, 1982 (aged 71) Paris, France |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | sculpture, collage, lithography, etching |
Ronnie Rose Elliott (née Greenspan; 16 December 1910 – 22 May 1982)[1] was an American sculptor and collagist, who worked also as a printmaker, using the techniques of lithography and etching.[1][2][3]
Biography
She was born in New York City, to Sol and Sara Greenspan,[1] and she worked first as a sculptor. With a scholarship at the Art Students League of New York she studied painting, but only for a few months. She travelled in Europe, lived at Honolulu enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts.[1] She married John Elliott, from Britain, in 1936, but the marriage lasted only a year.[1] She kept the last name having already started using it professionally.[1]
Elliot's first solo exhibit, held in 1937, was at the Delphic Gallery in New York.[1] Elliott was friends with Dorothea Tanning,[4][5] who in 1942 introduced her to her second husband, John Knapp, a writer at the Wall Street Journal who worked with Tanning's husband.[1] Throughout the 1940s the Marquie Gallery hosted solo exhibits of Elliott's work.[1][6] The Museum of Modern Art's 1948 exhibit "Collage," included 30 artists, Elliott being the only woman included.[1] Elliott also exhibited at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles several times around 1950.[1] Returning to New York, she exhibited at the Rose Fried Gallery.[1][7]
Elliot's work is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[2] the Whitney Museum of American Art,[8] American University Museum,[9] The Hyde Collection,[10][11] and the Museum of Modern Art.[12]
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Suro, Federico (Spring–Summer 1994). "Ronnie Elliott: A Restless Spirit". Woman's Art Journal. 15 (1): 11–15. doi:10.2307/1358489. ISSN 0270-7993. JSTOR 1358489.
- ^ a b "Art: Collage Number 22, Ronnie Elliott, American, 1947". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Archived from the original on 21 February 2025. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
- ^ "A Finding Aid to the Ronnie Rose Elliott Papers, 1948-1977". Archives of American Art. Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on 23 June 2025. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
- ^ Tanning, Dorothea (1986). Birthday. Santa Monica, CA: Lapis Press. pp. 71–73. ISBN 9780932499158. OCLC 14924712. Retrieved 23 June 2025 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Shikler, Barbara (11 July 1990). "Oral history interview with Dorothea Tanning, 1990 July 11-November 5". Archives of American Art. Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on 3 May 2025. Retrieved 23 June 2025.
- ^ Devree, Howard (14 May 1944). "Contrasts by Women". The New York Times. pp. Sec 2, 6.
- ^ The Non-Objective World, 1939-1955 (Exhibition catalogue) (in English, German, and Italian). Exhibition held at Annely Juda Fine Art, London; Galerie Laitowitsch, Basel; and Galleria Milano, Milan. 1972. p. 64. OCLC 938731.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ "Artists: Ronnie Elliott". Whitney Museum of American Art. Archived from the original on 23 March 2025. Retrieved 23 Jun 2025.
- ^ Shulman, Alexis (Spring 2023). "Ronnie Elliott, Hommage a Charlie Parker, 1973". In Wasserman, Andrew (ed.). Still, Moving: Featuring Works from the Corcoran Legacy Collection (PDF). American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center. pp. 34–35. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 April 2023. Retrieved 23 June 2025.
- ^ "Works: Hommage a Fats Waller, Ronnie Elliott, 1964". The Hyde Collection. Archived from the original on 24 June 2025. Retrieved 23 June 2025.
- ^ "Works: Hommage à Count Basie, Ronnie Elliot, 1969". The Hyde Collection. Archived from the original on 24 June 2025. Retrieved 23 June 2025.
- ^ "Work: Ronnie Elliott. The Secret Ladder. 1963". Museum of Modern Art. Archived from the original on 19 March 2025. Retrieved 23 Jun 2025.