BOTANICA P Drawing

New York School painter- arriving mid 20th Century as a young artist to today, many decades later. I feel that a lifetime of being a painter has given me an ever deepening receptivity to my own inner resources. My work is essentially gestural and linear- ink, tempera and acrylic- and over the decades I have explored form using these materials, though many of my earlier paintings are oils on canvas. Actually all materials are of interest to me, and have made collages, prints- etchings and lithographs and sculpture, as well as portraits and self portraits. Photography is a way of seeing also-- Artwork is included in the Museum of Modern Art Collection and Archives; The Smithsonian Archives of American art; Guild Hall Museum- Permanent Print Collection- Easthampton, NY; the Saint Johns University Artists book Archives; the Italo Calvino Memorial Library collection, in Torino. Italy.- Also listed in "Feminists Who Changed America, 1973-1975 " ; the 'International biographical Center' publications, Cambridge, England, and in the various 'Who's Who' publications, and in many other archives as well. Her work is in private and public collections internationally. Lois DiCosola was born Lois Bock on January 23, 1935 in Brooklyn, New York. She painted and drew from childhood on with a great passion, and at the age of fourteen was accepted into a professional art school, developing the skills that are central to the life of an artist, while also receiving a scholarship grant to the young people's workshop at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan at the age of sixteen. Art Kane selected her work to be the winner of the Seventeen magazine "˜It's All Yours' International Competition in 1953, and in 1954 she received the 33rd Annual Art Director's Club award in Editorial art for the same drawing. A graduate in Fine and Graphic Arts in January of 1953, she was already a published working artist in New York City, and the recipient of several national and international awards, including the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Medal for Fine Draftsmanship, the Carnegie Fine Art Institute National Printmaking Award and the Art Director's Club award for editorial art. She also holds a Bachelor of Professional Studies degree. http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/l/loisd/ http://local-artists.orgusers/lois-bock-dicosola {ArtistsSpace.org- Irving Sandler artists file} http://www.flickr.com/photos/11326913@N07/ http://www.flickr.