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Magnolia Blossoms
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About this work
Josephine Joy grew up on an Illinois farm, where she loved to sketch birds, trees, and flowers. Circumstances prevented her from following her artistic calling until 1927, after her children were grown and her husband had died. Joy lived in California then, and the WPA's California Art Project afforded her the opportunity to work gainfully as an artist. In the 1930s, "non-academic" painters were increasingly celebrated alongside their professional peers. By the early 1940s, Joy was a nationally acclaimed painter whose work had been featured in a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineMagnolia Blossoms. ca. 1935-1941. Josephine Joy, born North River Mills, WV 1869-died Peoria, IL 1948. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from General Services Administration. CC0.
