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Andrée Rexroth (1902 – 17 October 1940) was an American artist.
Andrée Schafer Rexroth | |
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 self portrait | |
| Born | 1902 |
| Died | September 17, 1940 (aged 37–38)[1] |
In the 1920s she married the poet Kenneth Rexroth. In 1927 the couple hitchhiked and camped their way from Indiana to San Francisco, California, where they settled.[2] In the 1930s she took part in the Works Progress Administration initiative to employ artists during the Great Depression.[3] In 1936 she was part of the group exhibition New Horizons in American Art at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.[4] She died from complications of an epileptic seizure in 1940, aged 38.[2] Following her death, Kenneth Rexroth wrote five poems in her memory.[5]
Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum[1] and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,[6]
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