Nude Woman in Bed With Mirror - Figurative Portrait in Oil by Patricia Gren Hayes

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Nude Woman in Bed with Mirror - Figurative Portrait in Oil on Canvas

Modern portrait of a nude woman by … Read more Nude Woman in Bed with Mirror - Figurative Portrait in Oil on Canvas

Modern portrait of a nude woman by American painter, Patricia Gren Hayes (b. 1932). The woman is laying in bed, with her head on her hands. The bed is messy, with rumpled blue and red bedding. To the left side of the composition, there is a mirror, reflecting the scene from a different angle.

Titled, signed, and dated on verso.
Presented "floating" in a gilded frame.
Frame size: 17.75"H x 21.75"W
Canvas size: 16"H x 20"W

Patricia Gren Hayes (American, b. 1932) is a Bay Area Figurative & Feminist Art Movement artist who studied at Winnipeg Public Art School in 1950. She received early recognition in Museum and Gallery competitions and exhibitions and was awarded a Special Education in Art recognition by the Winnipeg Museum of Fine Art, and was awarded a scholarship to the Banff College of Fine Art. Further studies were at The University of Manitoba.

She was a Member of Winnipeg Free Press Sketch Club and was a Cartoonist and paste-up for a French-English bi-weekly, in Eastern Canada;

She studied outdoor impressionism in New York in 1960; in 1962, attended The California College of Arts and Crafts, and in 1976 B.A., U.C. Berkeley where she studied under Elmer Bischoff, David Simpson, Joan Brown, Felix Ruvolo, Yolanda Lopez and Vincent Perez.

She started a freelance commercial art business in 1963; copyrighted a National Cartoon, 1976, and served as Exhibition Director for San Francisco Woman Artists Gallery and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1976-1978. She was a workshop instructor at the San Francisco Woman Artists Gallery, 1977-1985; and was Manager/Owner Stanton Art Gallery, Alameda, CA, 1976-1982.

Solo Exhibitions:
Berkeley Marina, 1974;
Oakland Center for The Visual Arts, "Images of Women", 1979

Group Exhibitions:
Oakland's Dept of Education, 1963, Studio One;
Alameda County Fair, 1975, 1976, 1978;
San Francisco Art Festival, 1969, 1970, 1976, 1977, 1978;
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1976, 1977, 1978;
San Francisco Women Artists Gallery Exhibition, award winner - 1970, 1977, 1978;
Hayward Bay Fair Art Festival, award winner - 1971;
Capricorn Assunder Gallery, 1973;
Oakland Art Festival, 1973, 1974;
Alameda Art Association, 1978;
El Cerrito Art Association, 1979;
Delta Art Annual, 1986;
San Francisco Woman's Gallery, 1976-1982;
Stanton Gallery, Alameda, CA, 1976-1982;
2nd Annual Bay Area Women's Graphic Art Competition, Los Gatos, CA, 1979 See less