Biografie von Ora Inge MAXIM (1895-1982)

Birth place: Lynchburg, VA

Death place: South Dartmouth, MA

Addresses: Active in New Bedford, MA area, 1926-54; Orleans, MA

Profession: Painter, woodblock printer

Studied: Swain Free School Des., New Bedford, 1926, with Harry Neyland; F. Mortimer Lamb, 1928-30; Blanche Lazzell in Provincetown, c.1931-32; with Col. Michel Jacobs and George Burroughs Torrey, in NYC, 1930

Exhibited: Lynchburg Art Cl., VA, 1929, 1931-33; Barbizon Plaza Art Gal., NYC, 1930; VMFA, 1931-33; Crapo Gal., Swain Free School Design, 1931; Soc. Indep. Artists, New Bedford, 1931; Gloucester Soc. Artists, 1931; Phila. A. All., 1932; Phila. Print Cl., 1932; Artist's Studio, New Bedford, 1932; H.S. Hutchinson and Co., New Bedford, 1933; Provincetown AA, 1934, 1988.

Comments: One of the "Provincetown Printers" from c.1931-35. She traveled through Europe and North Africa on sketching tour in 1930. Widowed by Austin Maxim, she married Hugh A. Kaulback in 1936. She began painting again after WWII. In 1954, she made Orleans, MA, her permanent residence.

Sources: Blasdale, Artists of New Bedford, 130-31 (w/repro.); add'l info. courtesy Steven Thomas, Woodstock, VT