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词条 Lily Harmon
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  1. Personal life

  2. References

  3. External links

{{infobox artist
| name = Lily Harmon
| image = Lily_Harmon.jpg
| birth_name = Lillian Perelmutter[1]
| birth_date = {{birth year|1912}}
| birth_place = New Haven, Connecticut
| death_date = {{death date and age|1998|02|11|1912| | }}
| death_place = New York City
| field = Portraitist and book illustrator
| education = Yale School of Fine Arts
Académie Colarossi
Art Students League of New York
| spouse = Philip Graham Harden
Sidney Harmon (m. 1934; div. 1940)
Joseph H. Hirshhorn (m. 1947; div. 1956)
Henry Rothman (m. 1960; div. 1960)
Milton Schachter (m. 1972-1996, his death)[2]
}}Lily Harmon (born Lillian Perelmutter; 1912–1998) was an American visual artist. She studied at the Yale School of Fine Arts in New Haven, and then went on to the Académie Colarossi in Paris, and lastly at the Art Students League of New York.[2]

Harmon illustrated books in the period 1945–1976, including by such authors as Franz Kafka, Andre Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre, Thomas Mann, and Edith Wharton.

Harmon was the subject of a 50-year retrospective exhibition in 1982 which was organized by the Wichita Art Museum in Kansas and later traveled to the Provincetown Art Association and the Butler Institute of American Art. Her first solo gallery show took place at Associated American Artists in 1994, in New York. Since then her works have been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, etc.

Harmon was a member of the Artists Equity Association, the Provincetown Art Association, and the National Academy of Design. Later in her life, she was a professor for painting at the National Academy of Design from 1974 until her retirement. She published an autobiography, Freehand, in 1981 (Simon & Schuster).

Personal life

Harmon had five marriages, including to producer/screenwriter Sidney Harmon (married 1934–1940) and financier/art collector Joseph H. Hirshhorn (married 1947[3]–1956). With Hirshhorn, she adopted two daughters, named Amy and Jo Ann.[2]

References

1. ^"Lily Harmon," Smithsonian American Art Museum Renwick Gallery website. Accessed Mar. 30, 2017.
2. ^[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/14/nyregion/lily-harmon-85-portraitist-and-book-illustrator.html "Lily Harmon, 85, Portraitist and Book Illustrator,"] New York Times (14 Feb. 1998). Retrieved 29 March 2017.
3. ^LePere, Gene Hirshhorn. Little Man in a Big Hurry: The Life of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, Uranium King and Art Collector (Vantage Press, 2009).

External links

  • [https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/lily-harmon-papers-7659 Lily Harmon papers, 1930-1996], Smithsonian Archives of American Art
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