Edith Bry

© Artist or Artist's Estate. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reprod…
Edith Bry
© Artist or Artist's Estate. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

Edith Bry

American painter and printmaker, 1898–1992
BiographyBry was an American painter, printmaker, and glass artist. She was born in St. Louis and her family moved to Manhattan around the time she turned ten. Her family traveled to Europe for vacations in Paris and Madrid, feeding her interest in art. After graduating from the Ethical Culture School, she studied at the Art Students League.

Bry was exhibiting portraits and abstractions in New York and beyond by the late 1920s. In the 1930s, reviews mentioned her printmaking (etching, lithography, and woodcut), as well as painting and drawing. She exhibited with the Studio Guild and the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors. In the late 1950s she began to experiment with fused glass, primarily producing work for places of worship.

Bry traveled extensively through Europe, North Africa, Central and South America, and the United States, and she drew subjects from these diverse locations.

Her work is in major American collections, including the Library of Congress, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the New York Public Library.
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