biography of Lila COPELAND (1912/22-?)

Birth place: New York, NY

Addresses: Woodstock, NY, 1947; NYC, 1973

Profession: Painter, printmaker

Studied: ASL, with George Grosz; A. Brook; J. Nichols; Pratt Graphic Art Ctr.

Exhibited: AIC, 1935,1937 (Norman Waite Harris bronze medal and prize); Dayton AI; GGE, 1939; Flint Inst. Art; WMAA; Lenox Gal.; Riverside Mus.; Greenwich Gal., 1958; Provincetown AA, 1958; Downtown Community School, 1958; Ward Eggleston Gal., 1958 (solo); Garelich's Gal., Detroit (solo); d'Alessio Gal., NYC (solo); De Pauw Univ.; Oklahoma Mus. Art; Staten Island Mus.; Wisconsin State Univ.; Florida Gulf Coast Art Center; Jasper Rand Mus., MA; Univ. Oregon; Albany Mus., GA; Arwin Gal., Detroit; Paul Kessler Gal., Provincetown, MA; NYC WPA Art" at Parsons School Design, 1977; Associated American Artists, NYC"

Member: AEA; ASL; Provincetown AA; Woodstock AA.

Work: British Mus., London, England; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France; NMAA; PMA; BMFA; Friends of Art, Woodstock, NY; Smithsonian Inst.; Phila. Mus. Art; Lausanne; Madrid; Lisbon; Seville; Jerusalem; Alaska Int. Inst.; Fairleigh DIckinson Univ.; Brussels; ASL

Comments: Preferred media: oils, crayon, lithography.

Sources: WW73; WW40; Joan Hess Michel, Children--the drawings of Lila Copeland," Am. Artist (Dec 1970); Joyce Hill, "Sketch of Lila Copeland," Lower Cape Newspaper, Dec. 12, 1972; New York City WPA Art, 21 (w/repros.)"