Frances Julia Myers

Frances Julia Myers;Frances Myers

Place: Racine

Born: 1936

Death: 2014

Biography:

Frances Julia Myers (April 16, 1936 – December 17, 2014) was an American printmaker. She was born in Racine, Wisconsin, and began her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute, but soon transferred to the University of Wisconsin–Madison where she earned a BS in 1962, and an MFA in 1965. Myers is best known for her prints depicting various buildings, and once said, 'I don’t want to invent a building, I want to bring new life to a building.' She taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for 20 years, from 1988-2008, working her way up from Assistant Professor to head of the Graphics Department. Myers earned several awards, including two National Endowment for the Arts National Fellowships, an H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship and a Kellett Mid-Career Award from UW-Madison, and was a fellow of the National Academy of Design in New York. In 2016, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art presented a posthumous retrospective of her work. Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Davidson Art Center, the Brooklyn Museum, in addition to several Wisconsin museums including the Racine Art Museum, Kenosha Public Museum, and the Milwaukee Art Museum.

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