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Magnolia Blossoms, Josephine Joy, ca. 1935-1941
Josephine Joy

Magnolia Blossoms

ca. 1935-1941 · Painting · 91.8 × 101.9 cm

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Where is “Magnolia Blossoms” now? Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Unknown.

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C., United States

The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.

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About the painting

Josephine Joy grew up on an Illinois farm, where she loved to sketch birds, trees, and flowers. Circumstances prevented her from following her artistic calling until 1927, after her children were grown and her husband had died. Joy lived in California then, and the WPA's California Art Project afforded her the opportunity to work gainfully as an artist. In the 1930s, "non-academic" painters were increasingly celebrated alongside their professional peers. By the early 1940s, Joy was a nationally acclaimed painter whose work had been featured in a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Details

Accession number
1971.447.44

What it shows

New Deal, 1933-1939FlowersWorks Progress Administration, Federal Art ProjectMagnolia

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PaintingsOilModernism20th centuryFolk Art

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