Faith Bromberg (1919– June 19, 1990) was an American painter active within the

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. Her work often featured figurative paintings in mixed mediums.

Biography

Born in

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in 1919. Bromberg attended

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, the

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, the

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, and the Los Angeles School of Fine Arts, and had lessons with

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and June Wayne. In 1980 she received a fellowship from the

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, and in 1975 and 1976 she won awards from the

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. She showed work in numerous exhibits, both solo and group, during her career. Active in

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art groups as well, she contributed to '' Feminist Art Journal'' and took an active role in Womanspace and Women's Caucus for the Arts, among others. Her paintings were often worked in oil and spray paint.

References

External links

The Faith Bromberg collection
from Smithsonian Institution's online virtual archive 1919 births 1990 deaths 20th-century American painters 20th-century American women painters University of California, Los Angeles alumni Otis College of Art and Design alumni National Endowment for the Arts Fellows Painters from Los Angeles Sacramento City College alumni American feminist artists {{US-painter-1910s-stub