Eleanor De Ghize
Eleanor de Ghizé (18 November, 1896 - 21 July, 1981) was an American
painter, born Eleanor May Jencks in New York City. She lived and painted in Maryland
until 1951, when she moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Eleanor studied with Leon Kroll
and John Sloan at the Maryland Institute in Baltimore, the Art Students League in New
York, and at the Atelier of Maurice Denis in Paris.[1] In the 1930s and 1940s, her work
was representative of the “Ashcan School”, exhibiting annually at the Baltimore
Museum of Art and at the 1939 New York World’s Fair.
In Santa Fé, Countess de Ghizé held several solo exhibitions at local galleries,
as well as the Santa Fé Museum of Art (now known as New Mexico Museum of Art) in
1960. She also exhibited in the Southwestern Biennial Shows at NMMA (1959).[5] In
1966, Eleanor de Ghizé held a retrospective exhibition at the Saint-Gaudens Museum in
Cornish, NH.[6]
de Ghizé's work was included in the collections of the Walters Art Gallery, the
Baltimore Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, New Mexico (NMMA), and
numerous private collections. She also held one-man shows at St. John’s College and
several Santa Fé galleries.
Exhibitions:
1939-1940 New York World's Fair (IBM Purchase Prize winner from Maryland)
1935-1944 Annual Exhibitions of the Baltimore Museum of Art
1958 New Mexico Museum of Art, Biennial Exhibition for New Mexico Artists
1958 New Mexico Museum of Art, 1958 Forty-fifth (45th) Fiesta Show
1959 New Mexico Museum of Art, 1959 Southwestern artists Biennial Exhibition
1959 New Mexico Museum of Art 1959 Fiesta Show, 46th Annual Open Door Exhibition
1960 New Mexico Museum of Art, 1960 Biennial Exhibition for New Mexico Artists
1960 New Mexico Museum of Art Alcove Shows
1960 New Mexico Museum of Art 1960 Fiesta Show, 47th Annual Open Door Exhibition
1966 New Mexico Museum of Art, 1966 Southwestern Fiesta-Biennial Exhibition
1966 Saint-Gaudens Memorial (connected with the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site Museum)
Exhibition title: "Eleanor de Ghize: Paintings”
^ Museum of Fine Arts (1974). Handbook of the Collections, 1917 - 1974. Santa Fe,
NM: Museum of New Mexico Press. p. 46.
^ Wentzell, C. R. (1959). Artists of Santa Fe: Their Works and Words.
^ Contemporary Art of the Western Hemisphere: Permanent Collection, International
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MACHINES Corporation, 1941.
^ Petteys, Chris (1985). Dictionary of Women Artists: an international dictionary of
women artists born before 1900. Boston: G.K. Hall and Co. pp. 188–9.
ISBN 0-8161-8456-9.
^ Saint-Gaudens Museum (1966). Eleanor de Ghizé (Exhibition catalog ed.). Cornish,
NH: Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park
^ The Southwestern Artists Biennial Exhibition. (1959). Museum of New Mexico Art
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