Elsie Bates-Freund
Elsie Bates-Freund | |
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| Born | Elsie Mari Bates January 12, 1927 Mincy, Missouri |
| Died | June 14, 2001(aged 74) Little Rock, Arkansas |
| Alma mater | Kansas City Art Institute |
| Known for | Jewelry design |
Elsie Mari Bates Freund(1912–2001) was an American studio art jeweler, watercolorist, and textile artist. She and her husband, Louis Freund,[1]established an art school inEureka Springsin 1941.[2][3]
Elsie Bates was born on January 12, 1912, inMincy, Missouri.[4]She studied at theKansas City Art Institute.[5]
Bates married fellow artist H. Louis Freund in 1939. The couple established the summerArt School of the Ozarks,which they operated from 1940 to 1951. Her husband taught painting and drawing while she taught classes related to crafts, such as weaving and design.[6]
The Freund school operated only during summers, Elsie was able to study more, taking her first ceramics class at the Wichita Art Association in Kansas. This is where she began to develop a jewelry-making process that combined clay, glass, and later—at the suggestion of a Florida shop owner—silver. Louis named the works “Elsaramics,” but Elsie shortened this to “Elsa,” which she stamped on her jewelry.[7]
In 1995, Freund moved to Parkway Village, a retirement community in Little Rock. She died on June 14, 2001, in Little Rock, Arkansas.[4][5]
Freund's work is in theArt Institute of Chicago,[8]theBrooklyn Museum,[9]theCleveland Museum of Art,[10]theCooper Hewitt,[11]theCorning Museum of Glass,[12]theMetropolitan Museum of Art,[13]theSmithsonian American Art Museum,[4]and theVictoria and Albert Museum.[14]
References
[edit]- ^"Harry Louis Freund (1905–1999) - Encyclopedia of Arkansas".www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net.Retrieved2018-03-10.
- ^Louis and Elsie Freund Papers.University of Arkansas Libraries: Special Collections.
- ^"Elsie Marie Bates-Freund | People | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum".collection.cooperhewitt.org.Retrieved2018-03-10.
- ^abc"Elsie Freund".Smithsonian American Art Museum.Retrieved10 December2023.
- ^ab"Elsie Freund".Missouri Remembers.Retrieved10 December2023.
- ^"Louis and Elsie Freund — Art Collection".uca.edu.Retrieved2018-03-10.
- ^Ebendorf, Robert. "Elsa Freund and Elsaramic Jewelry".Metalsmith.110:23–26.
- ^"Elsa Freund".The Art Institute of Chicago.1912.Retrieved11 December2023.
- ^"Elsa Freund – American, 1912-2001".Brooklyn Museum.Retrieved11 December2023.
- ^"Artist: Elsa Freund".Cleveland Museum of Art.Retrieved11 December2023.
- ^"Elsa Freund".Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.Retrieved11 December2023.
- ^"Ring".Corning Museum of Glass.Retrieved11 December2023.
- ^"Elsa Freund | Necklace".The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Retrieved11 December2023.
- ^Freund, Elsa (1965)."Neckpiece".Victoria and Albert Museum.Retrieved11 December2023.
Further reading
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| Artists | |
- 1912 births
- 2001 deaths
- 20th-century American artists
- 20th-century American jewellers
- 20th-century American women artists
- American textile artists
- American watercolorists
- Artists from Arkansas
- Artists from Missouri
- People from Eureka Springs, Arkansas
- People from Taney County, Missouri
- American women jewellers
- American jewelry designers