Sondra Freckelton (June 23, 1936 – June 10, 2019) was an American sculptor and watercolorist. She also known as Sondra Freckleton, and Sondra Beal.

Life and career

Sondra Freckelton was born on June 23, 1936, in Dearborn, Michigan. She attended the

School of the Art Institute of Chicago The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a Private university, private art school associated with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to an art students' cooperative founded in 1866, which gr ...

. In 1955, she married to fellow realist artist Jack Beal (1931–2013). Her sculpture was included in the 1959 exhibition ''Recent Sculpture U.S.A.'' at the

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street (Manhattan), 53rd Street between Fifth Avenue, Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, a ...

(as Sondra Beal). Her work was also included in the 1964 ''Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture'' at the Whitney (as Sondra Beal). In the mid-1970s Freckelton began focusing on watercolor painting. Freckelton died on June 10, 2019, in Oneonta, New York. Her work is in the

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, the

Kalamazoo Institute of Arts The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (KIA) is a non-profit art museum and school in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States. History In 1924, members of the Kalamazoo Chapter of the American Federation of Arts established an ...

, the

Madison Museum of Contemporary Art The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA), formerly known as the Madison Art Center, is an independent, non-profit art museum located in downtown Madison, Wisconsin. MMoCA is dedicated to exhibiting, collecting, and preserving modern and c ...

, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, and the

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, and the

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) is an art museum in Richmond, Virginia, United States, which opened in 1936. The museum is owned and operated by the Commonwealth of Virginia. Private donations, endowments, and funds are used for the supp ...

References

External links

Sondra Freckelton at VMFA 1997
video interview
Images of Freckelton's work
on Stewart & Stewart 1936 births 2019 deaths 20th-century American women painters American women sculptors People from Dearborn, Michigan School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni {{US-sculptor-stub