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Madeleine Dimond (1922–1991) was an American
Abstract expressionist Abstract expressionism in the United States emerged as a distinct art movement in the aftermath of World War II and gained mainstream acceptance in the 1950s, a shift from the American social realism of the 1930s influenced by the Great Depressi ...
painter. Dimond was born on October 8, 1922, in New York City. She studied briefly at the
Art Students League of New York The Art Students League of New York is an art school in the American Fine Arts Society in Manhattan, New York City. The Arts Students League is known for its broad appeal to both amateurs and professional artists. Although artists may study f ...
. She served in the
WAVES United States Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve), better known as the WAVES (for Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), was the women's branch of the United States Naval Reserve during World War II. It was established on July 21, 1942, ...
(Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) during
World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
. She settled in San Francisco and attended the
California School of Fine Arts San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) was a private college of contemporary art in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1871, SFAI was one of the oldest art schools in the United States and the oldest west of the Mississippi River. Approximately ...
under the
G.I. Bill The G.I. Bill, formally the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was a law that provided a range of benefits for some of the returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I. (military), G.I.s). The original G.I. Bill expired in ...
. Her teachers included Edward Corbett and
Hassel Smith Hassel Smith (24 April 1915 – 2 January 2007) was an American artist and teacher. He is considered to have been one of the USA's foremost West Coast artists, emerging in the decade after World War II as an innovative, potent, witty and often ...
. Through the 1950s Dimond had a studio on
Mission Street Mission Street is a north-south arterial thoroughfare in Daly City and San Francisco, California that runs from Daly City's southern border to San Francisco's northeast waterfront. The street and San Francisco's Mission District through which ...
as did fellow abstract expressionist painters
Joan Brown Joan Brown (born Joan Vivien Beatty; February 13, 1938 – October 26, 1990) was an American figurative painter who lived and worked in Northern California. She was a member of the "second generation" of the Bay Area Figurative Movement.Gl ...
and
Sonia Gechtoff Sonia Gechtoff (September 25, 1926 – February 1, 2018) was an American abstract expressionist painter. Her primary medium was painting, but she also created drawings and prints. Early life and education Sonia Gechtoff was born in Philadelphia ...
. She was involved with cooperative galleries around San Francisco including the Six Gallery and its predecessor the King Ubu Gallery. Her work was included in the 1954 exhibition "From San Francisco: A New Language of Painting" held at the Kauffman Gallery in New York City. Dimond relocated to New York in the 1960s with her third husband Peter D. Martin (1923–1988). The couple founded the New Yorker Bookstore located on West 89th Street. The bookstore was in existence from 1965 to 1982. Dimond returned to San Francisco after Martin's death. In 1988 she co-founded the Peter and Madeleine Martin Foundation for the Creative Arts. Dimond died on December 1, 1991, in San Francisco, California. In 2023 her work was included in the exhibition ''Vision Become: The Artists of the Six Gallery, San Francisco 1954–1957'' at the Modern Art West.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dimond, Madeleine 1922 births 1991 deaths Artists from New York City 20th-century American painters 20th-century American women painters