Lily Harmon
Frank Kleinholz says that women and men now exhibit their work on equal terms but it wasn't always this way. Today he talks with Lily Harmon about her work. She is the first woman on his program. She studied at the Yale School of Art for two years and in Paris for a year as well as the Art Students League in New York. She goes into some detail about her time in Paris. She first studied space and then color.
The special appeal of children in her work and art as a social message. Harmon says children in her work show her hope for the future of world now at war. They talk about the value of art in hospitals for its therapeutic value as well as her work with the Murphy family.
They discuss her 'one-woman' show at the Associated American Galleries after only four years of painting on her own. She is not tempted to do abstract work.
It appears they are reading from a script.
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