Elsie Driggs
1898–1992 · USA
About Elsie Driggs
Elsie Driggs (1898–1992) was an American painter and mixed-media artist. She studied at the Art Students League in New York from 1918 to 1921 and spent roughly fourteen months in Italy beginning in 1923, where the paintings of Piero della Francesca shaped her interest in simplified form and compositional order. Daniel Gallery presented her first solo exhibition in 1929.
Driggs became known for paintings of modern industry and architecture, including Pittsburgh, Queensborough Bridge, and Aeroplane, while also working in portraiture and still life. After marrying the painter Lee Gatch in 1935, she continued to make watercolors, pastels, murals, collages, and mixed-media constructions, often in limited domestic studio space. She returned to New York after Gatch’s death and worked through the end of her life.
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Elsie Driggs (1898–1992) was an American painter and mixed-media artist. She studied at the Art Students League in New York from 1918 to 1921 and spent roughly fourteen months in Italy beginning in 1923, where the paintings of Piero della Francesca shaped her interest in simplified form and compositional order. Daniel Gallery presented her first solo exhibition in 1929.
Driggs became known for paintings of modern industry and architecture, including Pittsburgh, Queensborough Bridge, and Aeroplane, while also working in portraiture and still life. After marrying the painter Lee Gatch in 1935, she continued to make watercolors, pastels, murals, collages, and mixed-media constructions, often in limited domestic studio space. She returned to New York after Gatch’s death and worked through the end of her life.