Biografie von Rose LABRIE (1916-1986)

Birth place: Boston, MA

Addresses: Portsmouth, NH

Profession: Painter, writer

Studied: Univ. NH, 1944-45; with Robert Grant & Carroll Towle, 1954-56; Univ. Wis., 1958-59.

Exhibited: Copley Soc., Boston, Mass.; Crest Gal.; solo shows, Shapely Towne House Gal., Portsmouth & Ann., John Sedgley Homestead, York, Maine; Crest Gals., Yardley, PA; Copley Society Gal., Boston, MA. Awards: First prize for mem painting of USS Thresher; awards from various local art groups.

Member: Copley Soc.; York Art Assn.; S. Street Seaport Mus.; Armed Forces Writers League; Piscataqua Pens.

Work: Strawbery Banke Colonial Preserv Mus, Portsmouth, NH; Richard Morton Coll., Portsmouth; Univ. NH Colonial Heritage Film Ser., Durham; John F. Barker Coll., Cambridge, Eng. Commissions: mural, USS Thresher, comn. by George Bergeron, New Market, NH; Earl of Halifax (signpost), comn. by Richard Morton.

Comments: Preferred medium: oils. Publications: illusr., Story of Pemaguid Light & History of Cape Neddick Light Station; contribr., Yankee, NH Profiles, 1958-68 & Nat. Antiques Rev., 1971; plus many other articles & illus. Art interests: contemporary primitive paintings.

Sources: WW73; Article, In: Nat. Antiques Rev. (Jul., 1972).