Biografie von Alicia Sundt MOTTS (XX)

Birth place: Oslo, Norway

Addresses: Cleveland, OH (1937); NYC; Los Angeles, CA (1950s)

Profession: Painter, writer, lecturer

Studied: Mayville College; AIC; John Huntington Polytechnic Inst.; G. Brockhurst in London; G. Luks; J. Sloan; Archipenko; W. Adams.

Exhibited: CMA, 1929-43 (traveling exh., 1939-43); AIC, 1936; Corcoran Gal. biennial, 1937; Ogunquit AC, 1937; Madonna Festival, Los Angeles, 1953, 1956; San Fran. Art Festival, 1954; NAD, 1944-45 (prize); Butler AI, 1938, 1940 (prize), 1941; NAWA, 1945, 1950-51; Riverside Mus., 1948; Gage Gal., Cleveland, 1935 (solo); Columbia Univ., 1944 (solo); Easton, PA, 1944 (solo); Glide Gal., San Fran., 1953 (solo); Newcomb-Macklin Gal., NYC, 1949 (solo).

Member: NAWA; AAPL; Composers, Authors & Artists of Am. (nat. art chmn., 1944-48; pres., NY Chapt. 1952-53; Calif. State pres., 1953-59); Woman's Art Club, Cleveland.

Work: murals, Sch. of Nursing, Easton, PA; Franklin Square Medical Lib., Balt.; Sch. of Nursing, Frederick, MD; Youth Room, Brooklyn YMCA; portrait commissions in NYC; Wash., DC; Cleveland; London

Comments: Represented in Cosmic Art, a book on religious art.

Sources: WW59; WW47.