Biografie von Frieda Bertha Anne PORTMANN (1895-1976)

Birth place: Tacoma, WA

Death place: Seattle, WA

Addresses: Seattle, WA

Profession: Painter, sculptor, teacher, designer, writer

Studied: Univ. Wash.; Oreg. State Col.; AIC; Univ. Chicago; Calif. Col. A. & Crafts; Cornish Sch.; Fernand Leger, Glenn Lukens, Clifford Still, Norman Lewis Rice, Peter Camfferman, Edward Du Penn, Julius Heller, Hayter, Lasansky & H. Matsumoto.

Exhibited: Women P. of Wash., 1940 (prize), 1943 (prize), 1946 (prize); Puyallup (Wash.) Fair, 1946 (prize); Northwest Pr. M., 1936-46; NAWA, 1936-39; SAM, 1937-46; Prints, BMFA; paintings, prints, sculpture & crafts, SAM; sculpture, Denver Mus. Art; painting & print, Oakland Mus. Art; paintings, Argent Gal., NY

Member: NAWPS; Northwest Printmakers (pres.); Women Painters Wash. (secy.).

Work: Calif. Col. A. & Cr.; St. Joseph's Sch., Seattle; Univ. Southern Calif., Los Angeles; AIC; Calif. Col. Fine Arts, Oakland. Commissions: Sacajewea (wooden garden sculpture), Seattle, Wash; Beer & Skittles (mural), pvt. home, Seattle; Pioneer Teacher (oils), Pioneer Assn., Seattle; Lily Madonna (ceramics), in garden, Catholic Sch., Seattle; numerous portraits in oils, Seattle.

Comments: Contributor: educational magazines, newspapers. Teaching: art dir., Walla Walla Pub Schs., Wash.; instr. art & orchestra, Aberdeen Pub. Schs., Wash.; instr. jr. & high sch. art, Seattle Pub. Schs.

Sources: WW73; WW47.

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