14 Facts About Elizabeth McCausland

Elizabeth McCausland was an American art critic, historian and writer.

Elizabeth McCausland was born in Wichita, Kansas, on April 16,1899.

Elizabeth McCausland became deeply invested in the Sacco-Vanzetti case and eventually compiled a series of articles in a pamphlet called The Blue Menace.

Elizabeth McCausland taught at Barnard College, New School for Social Research, Design Laboratory and Sarah Lawrence College.

Elizabeth McCausland worked in close cooperation with the photographer Berenice Abbott on the publication of her Changing New York series in 1939.

The project was sponsored by the Federal Art Project and McCausland wrote the text that accompanied Abbott's photographs.

Elizabeth McCausland wrote Work for Artists in 1947, which outlined the living conditions and economic status of the American artist.

Elizabeth McCausland authored works on individual artists, including Marsden Hartley, Alfred Maurer, Edward Lamson Henry, Charles W Hawthorne and George Inness.

Elizabeth McCausland wrote poetry and designed limited edition publications which she printed on her private press.

In 1939 Elizabeth McCausland organized the retrospective exhibition Lewis Hine at the Riverside Museum.

Elizabeth McCausland spent the last fifteen years of her life researching painter Marsden Hartley.

Elizabeth McCausland moved to New York City in 1935 and died there on May 14,1965.

Elizabeth McCausland corresponded with Arthur Dove and Alfred Stieglitz, the latter of whom was a close friend.

The papers of Elizabeth McCausland are in the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.