1. Eugenie Gershoy was an American sculptor and watercolorist.
11 Facts About Eugenie Gershoy
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From 1936 to 1939, Eugenie Gershoy worked for the WPA Federal Art Project.
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Eugenie Gershoy collaborated with Max Spivak on murals for the children's recreation room of the Queens Borough Public Library in Astoria, New York.
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Eugenie Gershoy developed a mixture of wheat paste, plaster, and egg tempera, which she used in polychrome papier-mache sculptures; she was the only New York sculptor to work in polychrome at this time.
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Eugenie Gershoy designed cement and mosaic sculptures of animals and figures to be placed in New York City playgrounds.
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Eugenie Gershoy moved to San Francisco in 1942, and began teaching ceramics at the California School of Fine Arts in 1946.
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Eugenie Gershoy visited England and France in the early 1930s, and worked in Paris in 1951.
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Eugenie Gershoy traveled to Mexico and Guatemala in the late 1940s, and toured Africa, India, and the Orient in 1955.
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In 1977, Eugenie Gershoy dedicated a sculpture to Audrey McMahon, who was actively involved in the creation of the Federal Art Project and served as its regional director in New York, in recognition of the work McMahon provided struggling artists in the 1930s.
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Eugenie Gershoy lived for many years in the Chelsea Hotel in New York City, where a group of her papier-mache sculptures was on permanent display in the main lobby.
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Eugenie Gershoy's work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.