Betye Saar
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Gender | Female |
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Age | 98 |
Web site | www.betyesaar.net |
Date of birth | July 30,1926 |
Zodiac sign | Leo |
Born | Los Angeles |
California | |
United States | |
On view | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
Detroit Institute of Arts | |
The Studio Museum in Harlem | |
Known for | Assemblage |
Children | Alison Saar |
Lezley Saar | |
Tracye Saar-Cavanaugh | |
Job | Visual Artist |
printmaker | |
Education | University of Southern California |
Pasadena City College | |
University of California, Los Angeles | |
California State University | |
California State University Long Beach | |
Books | Betye Saar: Still Tickin' |
Betye Saar resurrection | |
Betye Saar: Migrations | |
Saar: Black Girl's Window | |
Secret Heart: Fresno Art Museum, September 7, 1993-January 9, 1994 | |
Awards | Edward MacDowell Medal |
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada | |
Official site | betyesaar.net |
Spouse | Richard Saar |
Parents | Jefferson Maze Brown |
Beatrice Lillian Parson | |
Works | Window of Ancient Sirens |
Keep for Old Memiors | |
Nationality | American |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 631328 |
Betye Saar Life story
Betye Irene Saar is an African American artist known for her work in the medium of assemblage. Saar is a visual storyteller and an accomplished printmaker. Saar was a part of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s, which engaged myths and stereotypes about race and femininity.