Barbara Westman
Barbara Westman
American 20th-21st century painter and illustrator
(Boston, MA, April 3, 1929 – )
Barbara Westman: Ruth Sturdivant scholar Boston Museum Fine Arts School, 1961, Boston (Massachusetts) Museum Fine Arts, 2003. Member of Denman Waldo Ross Society. Bachelor of Arts in Art History, Goucher College, 1950; postgraduate, Malschule Die Form, Munich, 1953-1956; postgraduate, Boston Museum Fine Arts School, 1957-1960, 60-61.
Career
Teacher, painting, Boston Museum Fine Arts School, 1963-1967; teacher art, Beaver Country Day School, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1963-1965; draftsman, designer, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967-1977; staff artist, Harvard University Gazette, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977-1980; freelance artist, New York City, since 1980; cover artist, New Yorker Magazine, since 1983. Represented by Galerie-Mantoux-Gignac, Paris, and Galerie e.s., Bergen, Norway.
Westman was married to art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto
5 objects
1999
painted paper on paper
Archival Collection of Marion Boulton Stroud and Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mt. Desert Island, Maine. Gift from the Marion Boulton "Kippy" Stroud Foundation
2018.10.402
n.d.
watercolor on paper
Archival Collection of Marion Boulton Stroud and Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mt. Desert Island, Maine. Gift from the Marion Boulton "Kippy" Stroud Foundation
2018.10.405
2004
ink on paper
Archival Collection of Marion Boulton Stroud and Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mt. Desert Island, Maine. Gift from the Marion Boulton "Kippy" Stroud Foundation
2018.10.404
1997
ink and acrylic on paper
Archival Collection of Marion Boulton Stroud and Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mt. Desert Island, Maine. Gift from the Marion Boulton "Kippy" Stroud Foundation
2018.10.401
2000
collage and paint on board
Archival Collection of Marion Boulton Stroud and Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mt. Desert Island, Maine. Gift from the Marion Boulton "Kippy" Stroud Foundation
2018.10.403