Elizabeth Terrell

Elizabeth E. Terrell (1908 – 1993) was an American artist who completed works for the Works Progress Administration. Born in Toledo, Ohio, Terrell is known for her abstract and modern figures, still life paintings, and murals.^[1] She exhibited her art at the Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Whitney Museum of American Art. She did frescos, mixed media, mosaics, gouache and oil paintings.^[1] She produced a mural at the Starke, Florida Post Office titled "Reforestation" (1942).^[2] She was part of an exhibition with Rufino Tamayo and Julian Levi at the Ottumwa Art Center in Ottumwa, Iowa.^[3] Her work is in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.^[4]

Elizabeth E. Terrell
Born	1908 (1908) Toledo, Ohio
Died	1993 (aged 84–85)
Nationality	American
Occupation	Painter
Known for	Abstract and modern art

Industrial Landscape, gouache on paper, by Elizabeth Terrell, ca. 1939

The post office in Conyers, Georgia contains the mural, The Ploughman, (tempera on paperboard) painted by Terrell in 1940. It was funded as part of an arts program by the United States government, 1934 to 1943, through the Section of Painting and Sculpture, later called the Section of Fine Arts, of the Treasury Department.^[4][5]

Selected works

• "Calico Cat" Gouache on board 1938^[6]
• "The Trimmer" (ca. 1938-1939) at the Smithsonian American Art Museum^[4]
• "Industrial Landscape" (ca. 1939) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art^[7]
• "The Ploughman" mural at Old railroad depot in Conyers, Georgia (1940) ^[8]
• Mural "The Ploughman" (1940) at the Conyers, Georgia Old Post Office, moved to the new Post Office^[9][10]

References

1. "Artist Keywords: Elizabeth Terrell". askART. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
2. "New Deal Art in Florida: Post Office New Deal Artwork". WPA Murals. Archived from the original on 20 September 2023. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
3. "Watercolors, Ottumwa Art Center". Library of Congress. 1936. Archived from the original on 30 September 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
4. "Artist: Elizabeth Terrell". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Archived from the original on 5 October 2021. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
5. Arnesen, Eric (2007). Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-Class History. Vol. 3. O-Z. New York: Routledge. p. 1540. ISBN 978-0-415-96826-3. OCLC 70878011.
6. "Multicultural Art: Artworks from the Mulvane Art Museum's Collection (Mulvane Art Museum Outreach Program Teacher Resource Packet)" (PDF). Mulvane Art Museum - Washburn University. p. 13. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 February 2013.
7. "Industrial Landscape - Elizabeth Terrell". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Archived from the original on 28 March 2023. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
8. Craig, Robert M.; Wilson, Richard Guy (1995). Atlanta Architecture: Art Deco to Modern Classic, 1929-1959. Arcadia Publishing. p. 121. ISBN 978-1-4556-0044-1. OCLC 29703178 – via Google Books.
9. "Conyers Post Office Mural – Conyers GA". The Living New Deal. Archived from the original on 11 April 2024. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
10. Emerson, Jimmy (8 September 2006). "Conyers, Georgia Post Office Mural" (Photo of mural.). Archived from the original on 11 April 2024. Retrieved 10 April 2024 – via Flickr. Mural entitled "The Ploughman" painted in 1940 by Elizabeth Terrell. It has been moved to the "new" post office.

External links

• images of Terrell's work on Invaluable
• images of Terrell's work on Smithsonian American Art Museum