Artist

Priscilla Roberts

born Glen Ridge, NJ 1916-died Georgetown, CT 2001
Priscilla Roberts, <i>Self Portrait</i>, 1946, oil on masonite, Smithsonian American Art Museum,Museum Purchase 1991.197.
Priscilla Roberts, Self Portrait, 1946, oil on masonite, Smithsonian American Art Museum,Museum Purchase 1991.197.
Also known as
  • Priscilla Warren Roberts
  • Priscilla W. Roberts
Born
Glen Ridge, New Jersey, United States
Died
Georgetown, Connecticut, United States
Active in
  • Wilton, Connecticut, United States
  • New York, New York, United States
Biography

Priscilla Roberts was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, in 1916 and during her childhood moved to New York City with her family. After studying briefly at Radcliffe College and Yale University's School of Fine Art, she attended the Art Students League in New York City. She subsequently studied at the National Academy of Design, where she remained until 1943. Roberts was made a National Academician in 1957, and four years later her first solo exhibition took place at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York. Roberts has been called a magic realist because of her often strange juxtapositions of precisely painted objects. Roberts lives in Wilton, Connecticut.

National Museum of American Art (CD-ROM) (New York and Washington D.C.: MacMillan Digital in cooperation with the National Museum of American Art, 1996)

Works by this artist (1 item)

Mark Dagley, Hero, 1987, acrylic, polymer resin on canvas, mounted on wood, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Michael Abrams and Sandra Stewart and museum purchase, 2022.12, © 1987, Mark Dagley
Hero
Artist
Date1987
acrylic, polymer resin on canvas, mounted on wood
Not on view