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
Born1908 (1908)
Toledo, Ohio
Died1993 (aged 84–85)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationPainter
Known forAbstract and modern art
Industrial Landscape, gouache on paper, by Elizabeth Terrell, ca. 1939
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.[5][4]

Selected works

References
  1. Elizabeth Terrell Askart
  2. Florida WPA Murals
  3. "Watercolors, Ottumwa Art Center". Library of Congress. 1936.
  4. "Elizabeth Terrell | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
  5. Arnesen, Eric (2007). Encyclopedia of U.S. labor and working-class history. New York: Routledge. p. 1540. ISBN 978-0-415-96826-3. OCLC 70878011.
  6. Mulvane Art Museum Outreach Program Teacher Resource Packet Archived 2013-02-11 at the Wayback Machine page 12
  7. Atlanta Architecture: Art Deco to Modern Classic, 1929-1959, Volume 1 page 121
  8. Conyers Georgia Post Office Mural Archived 2014-02-23 at the Wayback Machine Living New Deal
  9. The Ploughman
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