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Alice baber biography
Alice Baber
American abstract expressionist painter (1928 - 1982)
For the American engraver and artist, see Alice Barber Stephens.
Alice Baber (August 22, 1928 – October 2, 1982) was an American abstract expressionist painter who worked in oil and watercolor.
She was educated in the United States and in the 1950s and 1960s she studied and lived in Paris. She also traveled around the world.[1] Baber, a feminist,[2] organized exhibits of women artists' work.[1]
Early life
Baber was born in Charleston, Illinois.
She grew up in Kansas, Illinois and Miami, Florida.[3] Her family traveled south to Florida in the winters at a doctor's suggestion because of Alice's poor health, starting around the age of two.[3] She was interested in becoming an artist from an early age.
Baber remembers that around age five she decided she would either be a "poet or painter."[3] At age eight, she was formally studying drawing and by age