1. Education

2. Works

3. References

Education

She started painting at a very early age. At the age of five, she began getting tutored by Ali Sami Boyar who was a painter and a museum director. She started studying abroad at 1919. She worked at studios of prominent artists of the early 20th century—with Lovis Corinth in Berlin between 1918–20, with Moritz Heymann and Karl Caspar in Munich between 1921–24, with Feyhaman Duran and Namik Ismail in Istanbul between 1928–29, with Paul Signac in Paris between 1930–33, and with Giorgio de Chirico in Rome between 1947–49.^[6] Between 1928–29, she also attended the State Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul. Giorgio de Chirico described her as "talented, having sensibility that painting requires, and entirely dedicated […] to difficult working conditions of this profession."^[7]

Works

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, she participated in the government program called "Yurt Gezileri," which aimed to document the process of modernization in Turkey. She was the first woman to participate in this program. She was sent to Zonguldak, a city in northern Turkey, to document industrial developments in the country and focused on painting factories.^[1]

In the early 1950s, she started working as an illustrator for several newspapers, such as Milliyet, Yeni Sabah, Hergün, Havadis, Cumhuriyet, and Tercüman. She also worked with institutions such as Yapi Kredi Bank and Inhisarlar Idaresi (Directorate of Monopolies) that changed its name to TEKEL in 1946.

Between 1953–72, she illustrated nineteen books, including Osman Gazi’den Atatürk’e (1953), Dağlar Kralı Balçıklı Ethem (1955), The Turkish Twins (1956), Anadolu Evliyaları (1958), Eski İstanbul Yosmaları (1959),Topkapı Sarayı, Osmanlı Padişahları, Tarihimizde Kahramanlar (1960), Forsa Halil, Erkek Kızlar, Dağ Padişahları (1962), Haşmetli Yosmalar (1963); Türk Zaferleri, Yeniçeriler (1964), La Fontaine Masalları, Patrona Halil (1967), Kabakçı Mustafa (1968), Türk Giyim Kuşam ve Süsleme Sözlüğü (1969), and Kösem Sultan (1972).^[1]

In 2015–16, SALT organized an exhibition with her artworks and archival materials, including drawings, paintings, photographs, letters, postcards, and publications she contributed to.^[8] The exhibition highlighted the diversity of the artist's visual production and how her works were related to the social changes of the second half of the 20th century. A selection of these materials was later donated to SALT in 2014.^[5]

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