1. Tracy Montminy, who completed early works as Elizabeth Tracy, was an American artist and muralist.
16 Facts About Tracy Montminy
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Tracy Montminy was an art instructor at the University of Missouri and the American University of Beirut, continuing her own painting projects simultaneously with her teaching into the 1980s.
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Elizabeth Tracy Montminy was born on June 5,1911, in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Tracy Montminy began painting and drawing images for stories as a child and initially wanted to illustrate fashion designs.
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In 1934, Tracy Montminy began working for the Works Project Administration through the Section of Painting and Sculpture.
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Tracy Montminy initially worked as an assistant to other artists, working on the murals in the public library in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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The Cambridge library project included four murals, which Tracy Montminy completed with Arthur Willis Oakman.
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Tracy Montminy's first solo commission was a mural for the fire and police building of Saugus, Massachusetts.
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Tracy Montminy began work on The Founding of Saugus in 1935 in the courthouse of the police station.
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Tracy Montminy was selected to paint the mural for the Milton, Massachusetts, post office.
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Tracy Montminy's mural, located on the second floor in what is the solicitor's office, was called Terror of the Wilderness.
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Tracy Montminy initially taught painting and drawing, but in 1976, a proposal to teach mural painting was approved.
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Tracy Montminy continued teaching until 1981, and in 1990, made arrangements for her estate to fund the Tracy Montminy Gallery, which is currently maintained through a trust.
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Tracy Montminy died in 1992 and left her estate to the Boone County Historical Society, in Columbia, Missouri.
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Tracy Montminy bequeathed an endowment to the Boone County Historical Society to enable the BCHS to build a gallery to care for the couples works as well as works of other artists from the surrounding area.
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The Tracy Montminy Gallery opened on April 24,1994, and is open Wednesday through Sundays with free admission.