19 Facts About Alice Baber

Alice Baber was an American abstract expressionist painter who worked in oil and watercolor.

Alice Baber was educated in the United States and in the 1950s and 1960s she studied and lived in Paris.

Alice Baber grew up in Kansas, Illinois and Miami, Florida.

Alice Baber's family traveled south to Florida in the winters at a doctor's suggestion because of Alice's poor health, starting around the age of two.

Alice Baber was interested in becoming an artist from an early age.

When World War II, broke out, the yearly trips Florida ended; around that time, Alice Baber was in her early teens.

Alice Baber chose to study art when she attended Lindenwood College for Women in Missouri, where she spent two years before transferring to Indiana University.

Alice Baber received her Master of Arts in 1951 and then began to travel through Europe.

Alice Baber studied briefly at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and lived in Paris in the late 1950s and 1960s.

Alice Baber began her career working primarily in oils, but began experimenting with watercolor paints in the 1950s.

Alice Baber was well known for her use of light and color holding several exhibitions devoted to these themes.

In 1958, Alice Baber had her first solo show in New York at March Gallery where she was a member.

Alice Baber told Brian Jones that she was looking for a "way to get the light moving across the whole thing" in Battle of the Oranges.

In 1975, Alice Baber curated the exhibition "Color, Light and Image".

From 1976 to 1978, Alice Baber traveled to 13 Latin American countries with the US State Department, exhibiting her work and lecturing on art.

In 1979, Alice Baber was an artist-in-residence at the Tamarind Institute print workshop.

Alice Baber is widely collected by private, corporate and university collections.

Alice Baber traveled to Japan and collected a large amount of Asian art in 1960s.

Alice Baber was interred in Fairview Cemetery in Edgar County, Illinois.