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”’Eve Josephson Garrison”’ (1903-2003) was a [[Modernism|modernist]] painter. Her early works focused on a realist style including landscapes and cityscapes, specifically depicting Chicago, Colorado, and Mexico.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bu.edu/today/2007/a-lifetime-in-portraits/|title=A Lifetime in Portraits {{!}} BU Today {{!}} Boston University|website=BU Today|access-date=2016-03-05}}</ref><ref name=”:0″ /> She also painted nudes and portraits and increasingly abstract and textured art in later life.<ref name=”Eve Garrison Life Study: 70 Years of Figurative Painting”>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Eve-Garrison-Life-Study-Figurative/dp/B007862NRW|title=Eve Garrison Life Study: 70 Years of Figurative Painting|website=Amazon|accessdate=5 March 2016}}</ref> She suggested creating work for juried shows and annuals was not the way “to be a great artists!” Instead, she began making work that felt was more expressive of her ideas. In the sixties she began making work that she termed “sculptural relief oil paintings.” This involved a process of embedding objects such as seeds, branches, glass, and string into the paint.<ref>{{Cite news|title=A Little Lady Lost in Her Art|last=MALAGARIS|first=KALIOPEE|date=28 June 1967|work=The Chicago Tribune}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=The Wonderful World of Art: Statues Share Show with ‘Sculptural Painting’|last=Weigle|first=Edith|date=May 12, 1957|work=The Chicago Tribune}}</ref> During the period she was producing more abstract work she had solo exhibitions in New York, Detroit, Milwaukee, Miami, Paris, and London.<ref>{{Cite news|title=A Little Lady Lost in Her Art|last=MALAGARIS|first=KALIOPEE|date=28 June 1967|work=Chicago Tribune}}</ref>

”’Eve Josephson Garrison”’ () was a [[Modernism|modernist]] painter. Her early works a realist style landscapes and cityscapes, specifically depicting Chicago, Colorado, and Mexico.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bu.edu/today/2007/a-lifetime-in-portraits/|title=A Lifetime in Portraits {{!}} BU Today {{!}} Boston University|website=BU Today|access-date=2016-03-05}}</ref><ref name=”:0″ /> She also painted nudes and portraits and increasingly abstract and textured art in later life.<ref name=”Eve Garrison Life Study: 70 Years of Figurative Painting”>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Eve-Garrison-Life-Study-Figurative/dp/B007862NRW|title=Eve Garrison Life Study: 70 Years of Figurative Painting|website=Amazon|accessdate=5 March 2016}}</ref> She suggested creating work for juried shows and annuals was not the way “to be a great artists!” Instead, she began making work that felt was more expressive of her ideas. In the sixties she began making work that she termed “sculptural relief oil paintings” This involved a process of embedding objects such as seeds, branches, glass, and string into the paint.<ref>{{Cite news|title=A Little Lady Lost in Her Art|last=MALAGARIS|first=KALIOPEE|date=28 June 1967|work=The Chicago Tribune}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=The Wonderful World of Art: Statues Share Show with ‘Sculptural Painting’|last=Weigle|first=Edith|date=May 12, 1957|work=The Chicago Tribune}}</ref> During the period she was producing more abstract work she had solo exhibitions in New York, Detroit, Milwaukee, Miami, Paris, and London.<ref>{{Cite news|title=A Little Lady Lost in Her Art|last=MALAGARIS|first=KALIOPEE|date=28 June 1967|work=Chicago Tribune}}</ref>

In 1957, Garrison, along with twenty-three other artists, including [[Leo Segedin]], co-founded Exhibit A, the first post-war, artist-run cooperative gallery in Chicago.<ref name=”Butler57″>Butler, Doris Lane. “A Group Gallery Opens,” Chicago Daily News, July 1957.</ref><ref name=”Weigle59″>Weigle, Edith. Review, ”Chicago Tribune”, May 25, 1959.</ref>

In 1957, Garrison, along with twenty-three other artists, including [[Leo Segedin]], co-founded Exhibit A, the first post-war, artist-run cooperative gallery in Chicago.<ref name=”Butler57″>Butler, Doris Lane. “A Group Gallery Opens,” Chicago Daily News, July 1957.</ref><ref name=”Weigle59″>Weigle, Edith. Review, ”Chicago Tribune”, May 25, 1959.</ref>

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== Exhibitions ==

== Exhibitions ==

* 1934-1940 Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, AIC

* Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, AIC

* 1983 After the Great Crash: New Deal Art in Illinois, Illinois State Museum

* 1983 After the Great Crash: New Deal Art in Illinois, Illinois State Museum

* 2007 Eve Garrison: Life Study, 70 Years of figurative painting

* 2007 Eve Garrison: Life Study, 70 Years of figurative painting

American artist

Eve Josephson Garrison (1903–2003) was a modernist painter. Her early works were in a realist style and included landscapes and cityscapes, specifically depicting Chicago, Colorado, and Mexico.^[1][2] She also painted nudes and portraits and increasingly abstract and textured art in later life.^[3] She suggested that creating work for juried shows and annuals was not the way “to be a great artists!” Instead, she began making work that she felt was more expressive of her ideas. In the sixties she began making work that she termed “sculptural relief oil paintings”. This involved a process of embedding objects such as seeds, branches, glass, and string into the paint.^[4][5] During the period she was producing more abstract work she had solo exhibitions in New York, Detroit, Milwaukee, Miami, Paris, and London.^[6]

In 1957, Garrison, along with twenty-three other artists, including Leo Segedin, co-founded Exhibit A, the first post-war, artist-run cooperative gallery in Chicago.^[7][8]

Garrison graduated from School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930.^[2] She also exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago’s Annual Chicago and Vicinity Artists exhibition between 1934 and 1940.

• 1934–1940 Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, AIC
• 1983 After the Great Crash: New Deal Art in Illinois, Illinois State Museum
• 2007 Eve Garrison: Life Study, 70 Years of figurative painting

• 1933 Prize, Chicago Galleries Association
• 1933 Prize, Washington (DC) Society of Artists