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“My art is all I can give to the world, it is all I have to offer.”
Abstract painting by Janet Lippincott, 1975, acrylic on linen.
Born in New York in 1918, Lippincott had attended the Art Students League of New York at age fifteen before departing for Paris where she was introduced to the work of Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and other early modernists. In 1949, Lippincott attended the Emil Bisttram School for Transcendentalism in Taos, New Mexico. After studying with Bisttram and Alfred Morang, she took a job at the San Francisco Art Institute.
In the early 1950s, Lippincott received fellowships to study at the California School of Fine Arts and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. Janet Lippincott moved from early representational works and a lifelong love of minimalist drawings of the human figure to abstract expressionist paintings.
Lippincott was a driving force in New Mexico’s contemporary art scene and received many awards, including the 2002 New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts and the 2003 Arts Achievement Award from the New Mexico Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC. Ms. Lippincott has dedicated her life to making art and was Identified in the press as a modern “iconoclast, pioneer, and trailblazer.
