16 Facts About Fannie Hillsmith

Fannie Hillsmith's grandfather, Frank Hill Smith, was a painter, as well as one of the founders of the Boston Museum School.

Fannie Hillsmith enrolled in the Boston Museum School in 1930, and graduated four years later.

The couple met while Hillsmith was on a one-year scholarship from the Boston Museum of Art to study in Europe.

Fannie Hillsmith moved from Boston to New York City in 1934.

Fannie Hillsmith studied under such teachers as William Zorach and Yasuo Kuniyoshi for one year while at the Art Students League.

Fannie Hillsmith held her first art show in New York at the Norlyst Gallery, owned by Jimmy Ernst, in 1943.

Fannie Hillsmith's work was included in Abstract and Surrealist Art in America by Sidney Janis, published in 1944.

Fannie Hillsmith displayed her work in three shows at the Art of This Century Gallery in Manhattan, which was owned by Peggy Guggenheim.

Fannie Hillsmith exhibited at a series of shows at the Peridot Gallery and the Charles Egan Gallery during the 1950s and 1960s.

Fannie Hillsmith began working at Atelier 17, which was an intaglio printmaking workshop owned by Stanley William Hayter, in 1946.

Fannie Hillsmith worked at Aterlier alongside noted artists such as Yves Tanguy, Miro and Jacques Lipchitz.

Fannie Hillsmith became very close friends with Harriet Berger Nurkse and Alicia Legg.

Fannie Hillsmith taught briefly at Black Mountain College, located in Asheville, North Carolina.

Fannie Hillsmith actively painted Cubist art for nearly sixty years.

Fannie Hillsmith had been represented by an art gallery in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood since 1990.

Fannie Hillsmith died in her sleep at her home in Jaffrey, New Hampshire on July 27,2007.