Irene Hodes Newman, Watercolor Painting Three Black Men

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This does not appear to be signed but was framed with her biography verso.
Irene Hodes Newman, an Impressionist painter, … Read more This does not appear to be signed but was framed with her biography verso.
Irene Hodes Newman, an Impressionist painter, was known for her watercolors of black people, African American Gullah and Creole people and their culture in New Orleans. born in Cameron, Missouri. Newman was well known for her images of birds, atmospheric scenes of the Georgia Atlantic coast, and cityscapes from Savannah to New York City. A member of the Baltimore Water Color Club, the American Artists Professional League, the National Arts Club in New York City and the Audubon Artists Society. Active from the late 1930s until the mid-1950s, her work hung in exhibitions at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (1939); The American Water Color Society, New York (1939, 1941, 1942); the Morton Gallery, New York (1939, 1940); the Allied Artists of America, New York (1939-1942); the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland (1939, 1940, 1948-52); the Art Institute of Chicago (1940, 1941, 1949); the Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri (1940); the Brooklyn Museum (1941); the San Diego Fine Arts Society, California (1941); the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1942); the Springfield Museum of Art, Massachusetts (1945); the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio (1950); the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia (1950); and the National Gallery of Art, Washington (1955).
From 1948 until 1955, Newman showed at the Milch Gallery in New York City. In 1949 she was featured there in a show called "Six Watercolorists." During this period she was based in New York City, showing paintings of birds as well as New York views. Newman also showed at the Grand Central Art Gallery in New York City in 1955. See less