Original Abstract Art Collage Oil On Canvas Painting Signed M Guggenheim J Meyer
DESCRIPTION
Original mixed media abstract collage oil on canvas abstract painting by Mary Guggenheim (1917-2001). This composition which is painted and compiled on canvas is an abstract version of a Mappa Mundi by the Missouri born artist. Guggenheim had a long and illustrious career in the arts ranging from ballet, writing, sculpture and painting.
Signed on the reverse: To Patsy and Julian Meyer Mary Guggenheim
Mary received her early education in Saint Louis convents and in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she was a classmate of Indira Gandhi. Mary was offered early admission to the University of Chicago, where she graduated at the age of 18. She continued her education at different times throughout her life at Washington University and UCLA.
During her twenties, Mary emphatically devoured multiple artistic disciplines including dance, painting, sculpture and writing. In the late '30s she studied ballet in Chicago with Bernice Holmes, who also taught the famous dancer Sono Osoto, of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Mary was then recruited by the Ballet Russe to be in their corps de Ballet. She danced professionally with them for three years, working with Bronislava Najinska, sister to Vaslav Nijinsky, with whom she maintained a lifelong friendship.
In 1940, she began to work as a French/ English translator for the Office of War Information, NYC. During the war effort, she worked alongside Jean Malaquais, Jean-Paul Sartre, Andre Breton and Edward Roditi. Influenced and inspired by these individuals, her desire to write came into focus and by the late '40s she was writing prolifically. During these war years she met and had a love affair with the writer Nelson Algren, whom she would later introduce to Simone deBeauvoir. After the war, during the creative heyday of Hollywood, Mary moved to LA. In 1948 she met and married Max Leon Ewalt, with whom she had two daughters: Maximilienne and Montserrat.
In the late '50s, she went to Salzburg, Austria to study painting with Oskar Kokoschka. She also studied painting with Sam Amato at UCLA, and she studied sculpture with Richard Boyce and Elio Benvenuto also located in Los Angeles. She moved to Paris, France in 1967, with her two young daughters, where for a time she worked as a medical and technical translator. She remained in Paris for the next 25 years where she painted, sculpted and wrote professionally. The last ten years of her life were spent in San Francisco where she continued to paint with abandon until her death, May 26, 2001.
This piece of art was a gift and dedicated to Patsy Myers and her husband Julian who was a Hollywood publicist. While at Fox from 1948-61, Myers worked with a slew of top stars. Along with Monroe, Presley and Wayne, they included Betty Grable, Deborah Kerr, Jayne Mansfield, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Shelley Winters, Claudette Colbert, Patricia Neal, Bette Davis, Ava Gardner, Joanne Woodward, Shirley Temple, Leslie Caron, Ethel Merman, Mitzi Gaynor, Shirley Jones, Rita Moreno, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Russell, Shirley MacLaine, Dorothy Dandridge and Joan Collins.
MEASUREMENTS
Framed painting measures 21" tall by 17" wide" (canvas measures 20" tall by 16") and weighs 2lbs 4oz.
CONDITION
In good condition with scuffs throughout the frame (please see all pictures as they form part of the condition description).
Original mixed media abstract collage oil on canvas abstract painting by Mary Guggenheim (1917-2001). This composition which is painted and compiled on canvas is an abstract version of a Mappa Mundi by the Missouri born artist. Guggenheim had a long and illustrious career in the arts ranging from ballet, writing, sculpture and painting.
Signed on the reverse: To Patsy and Julian Meyer Mary Guggenheim
Mary received her early education in Saint Louis convents and in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she was a classmate of Indira Gandhi. Mary was offered early admission to the University of Chicago, where she graduated at the age of 18. She continued her education at different times throughout her life at Washington University and UCLA.
During her twenties, Mary emphatically devoured multiple artistic disciplines including dance, painting, sculpture and writing. In the late '30s she studied ballet in Chicago with Bernice Holmes, who also taught the famous dancer Sono Osoto, of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Mary was then recruited by the Ballet Russe to be in their corps de Ballet. She danced professionally with them for three years, working with Bronislava Najinska, sister to Vaslav Nijinsky, with whom she maintained a lifelong friendship.
In 1940, she began to work as a French/ English translator for the Office of War Information, NYC. During the war effort, she worked alongside Jean Malaquais, Jean-Paul Sartre, Andre Breton and Edward Roditi. Influenced and inspired by these individuals, her desire to write came into focus and by the late '40s she was writing prolifically. During these war years she met and had a love affair with the writer Nelson Algren, whom she would later introduce to Simone deBeauvoir. After the war, during the creative heyday of Hollywood, Mary moved to LA. In 1948 she met and married Max Leon Ewalt, with whom she had two daughters: Maximilienne and Montserrat.
In the late '50s, she went to Salzburg, Austria to study painting with Oskar Kokoschka. She also studied painting with Sam Amato at UCLA, and she studied sculpture with Richard Boyce and Elio Benvenuto also located in Los Angeles. She moved to Paris, France in 1967, with her two young daughters, where for a time she worked as a medical and technical translator. She remained in Paris for the next 25 years where she painted, sculpted and wrote professionally. The last ten years of her life were spent in San Francisco where she continued to paint with abandon until her death, May 26, 2001.
This piece of art was a gift and dedicated to Patsy Myers and her husband Julian who was a Hollywood publicist. While at Fox from 1948-61, Myers worked with a slew of top stars. Along with Monroe, Presley and Wayne, they included Betty Grable, Deborah Kerr, Jayne Mansfield, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Shelley Winters, Claudette Colbert, Patricia Neal, Bette Davis, Ava Gardner, Joanne Woodward, Shirley Temple, Leslie Caron, Ethel Merman, Mitzi Gaynor, Shirley Jones, Rita Moreno, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Russell, Shirley MacLaine, Dorothy Dandridge and Joan Collins.
MEASUREMENTS
Framed painting measures 21" tall by 17" wide" (canvas measures 20" tall by 16") and weighs 2lbs 4oz.
CONDITION
In good condition with scuffs throughout the frame (please see all pictures as they form part of the condition description).
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