Enid Bell
Enid Bell Palanchian (December 4, 1904 – 1994), known professionally as Enid Bell,[1] was an American sculptor, illustrator and teacher born in London, England.
Enid Bell Palanchian | |
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Born | December 4th 1904 London, England |
Died | 1994 Englewood, New Jersey |
Occupation(s) | Sculptor, Illustrator, Teacher |
Early life
Bell studied at the Glasgow School of Art, then at the St John's Wood Art School as well as studying with fellow Scot Sir William Reid Dick in London[2] and then after moving to the United States, at the Art Students League in New York City.[3] Essentially a figurative, direct carving in wood artist, she was based in New Jersey where she became the head of the sculpture program of the Federal Art Project for that state and was herself the creator of several FAP commissions.
In 1932 she married Armenian-American businessman and artist, Missalk Palanchian, though she retained her surname as Bell for professional purposes.[1]
She taught at Miss Chaplin's School of Arts in New York City from 1929-1931 under the role of an art teacher.[4] In 1940 until 1941 she was the Sculpture Supervisor for the New Jersey Arts & Crafts Project, W.P.A.[4]
Following the end of the Federal Art Project in 1944, she taught as instructor of sculpture and Head of the Sculpture Department of the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art until 1968.[5]
Bell was a member of the National Sculpture Society.[1]
Bell died in 1994 in Englewood, New Jersey.[6]
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
- Ferargil Galleries, New York City, December 9 – 29, 1929, exhibited 22 pieces including hazel wood “Pause”, Madonna”, “Trio” cherrywood “Duet” & “Harvesters”, bronze “Pavlova”, “Summer” & “Liza”, white oak “Negress”, whitewood “Negresses” & “Mexicans” and portrait panels and screens.[7]
- Arden Gallery, New York City, NY, November 5–19, 1934, exhibited 26 pieces including metal panels “Oriental Dancers”, “Flute Player” and unnamed “Two Figures”, a mahogany screen, ebony “Africans”, “Negress” & “Nocturne”, marble “Seated Figure”, “Sleep” & “Pigeons”, white pine “Mother and Child”, mahogany “Dancer”, Japanese wood “Cyclamen”, several carved chests, hazelwood “At the Window” and cherry wood “Harvesters” & “Composition”.[7]
- New Jersey Arts & Crafts Project, Works Project Administration, “Exhibition of Sculpture & Drawings by Enid Bell”, 1940[7]
- Southern Connecticut State College, “Exhibition”, 1966[7]
- North Jersey Cultural Council, “Exhibition”, May 1969[7]
- Museum of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico[7]
- Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois, February 15 to April 15, 1957, Exhibited twenty sculptures including “Bathers”, “Clown”, and pieces of ballplayers and musicians.[7]
Joint Exhibitions With Missak Palanchian
- Kresge Gallery, Newark, NJ, 1934[7]
- Museum of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1948[7]
- Museum of New Mexico Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1950[7]
- Harwood Gallery, Taos, New Mexico[7]
- Argent Gallery, New York City, New York, March 1949, Exhibited 24 pieces including, ebony “Dark Continent” and “Africans”, white marble “Embrace” & “Madonna”, terra-cotta “Odalisque” & “Clown”, pine “Sisters”, “Spirella”, “Baseball” & “Mother and Child” bronze “Dancers”, mahogany “Musician”, ”Boy”, “Orientale” & “Undula”, and pear wood “Bathers”. [7]
- Silo Gallery, Morris Plains, NJ, March 1954, exhibited pieces including ebony “Dark Continent”[7]
Annual, Special, and Group Exhibitions
Europe
- Paris International Exposition, Paris, France, 1937- Winner of the Gold Medal Award[7]
New York
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Artists for Victory - An Exhibition of Contemporary American Art”[7]
- New York's First World Fair, “American Art Today”, 1939, exhibited marble “Mother and Child”[7]
- Museum of the City of New York, “National Exhibition of American Art”, Summer 1938, Exhibited “Mother and Child”[7]
- New York Society of Craftsmen, “44th Annual Exhibition”, March 19 – 29th, 1947[7]
- Argent Gallery, New York City, NY, “Contemporary American Crafts”, March 27 through April 6, 1946[7]
- Ferargil Galleries, New York City, “Exhibition”, Spring 1930, exhibited “Negress” and “Pavlova”[7]
- Brooklyn Museum, “Recent Works by Distinguished Sculptors”, 1930, exhibited cherry wood “Duet”, walnut “Autumn” and white wood “Negress”[7]
- Whitney Studio Club, New York City, 1930
- Chappaqua Gallery, “Exhibit of Painting, Graphics and Sculptures”, September 28 to October, 1951[7]
- [7]Leslie Fliegel Gallery, “8 Contemporary Artists”, December 8, 1963 to January 12, 1964.[7]
New Jersey
- New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
- The Jersey City Museum:
- Fifty-Sixth Street Galleries, Exhibition in Plainfield, NJ, February 1930, exhibited a panel of her sister, Jean Diack, to which the Art Digest gave honorable mention.[7]
- Ringwood Gallery, NJ, “Exhibition of Sculptures”, July 7 – 22nd, 1973
- Rutgers University, Douglas College, “Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series”, January 11 to February 19, 1988, exhibited 16 pieces, including Maplewood “Diver”, and “Mother and Child” and “Sisters”.[7]
- Trenton Museum, ”New Deal Art”[7]
- Montclair Art Museum, NJ:
- “New Jersey State Exhibition”, November 12 to December 24th, 1948, Exhibited terra-cotta “Dancers”, Received First Sculpture Award[7]
- “21st Annual New Jersey State Exhibition”, November _ to December 2, 1951, the awards jury withheld the top award in sculpture because of an exhibition rule that no artists may take the same prize within a five year period. Awarded “Honorable Mention” for her white marble “Madonna” because she had received the first prize award less than 5 years previously.[7]
- “The Awards Artists Exhibition”, March 1966, exhibited pieces including “Bird Bath”[7]
- The Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art:
- “Annual Exhibition”, demonstration by Enid Bell, February 20, 1947[7]
- “Annual Exhibition”, demonstration by Enid Bell, May 19, 1948[7]
- “Annual Exhibition”, demonstration by Enid Bell, May 17, 1949[7]
- Solo Exhibit January 22 to February 2, ?, Exhibited “Bathers”, Composition”, “African”, “Mother and Child”, Grief”, “Night”, “Pieta”, Pigeons”, Pavlova”, “Night Club”, “Whitewood Screen”, “Dancers”, “Negress”, “Musicians”, and “Hazelwood Panel”.[7]
- “Annual Exhibition”, demonstration in clay by Enid Bell, May 1964[7]
- Newark Public Library, “A History of Crafts”, Summer 1968[7]
- The Newark Art Club, “American Art Week Exhibition”, October 30 to November 20, 1947, Exhibited “Pony Rider” and “Mother and Child”[7]
- Associated Artists of New Jersey:
- “Third New York Exhibition” at the Riverside Museum, March 2 – 23rd, 1947, Exhibited “Clown”, “Sisters”, “Bathers” and “Refugees”;[7]
- “Exhibition” at Summit Art Association, April 25 to May 9, 1948, Exhibited “Boy Reading”, “Surf Rider” and “Spanish Mother”[7]
- “Exhibition” at the Newark Museum, March 26 to April 24, 1949, Exhibited terra-cotta “Indian Mother”[7]
- “Work by New Jersey Artists”, March 25 to April 30, 1952[7]
- “Exhibition” at the Newark Public Library, November 1953[7]
- “Seventh New York Exhibition”, November 6 – 24, 1954, exhibited mahogany “Tackle” and “Violinist”[7]
- “Newark Arts Festival”, June 1 – 7, 1959, exhibited “Odalisque”[7]
- Leonia Public Library, NJ
Pennsylvania
- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts:
Florida
- Miami Beach Art Center, “Exhibition” March _ to April 5, 1949, Exhibited 6 pieces including pearwood “Bathers”[7]
New Mexico
- New Mexico State Fair, 1949[7]
Kansas
- Wichita Art Association, “Decorative Arts – Ceramic Exhibition”, May 4–11, 1946, Exhibited ceramic pieces, “Angel”, “Girl Reading” and “Bathers”[7]
Georgia
- Columbus Museum, “Exhibition”, October 1956, exhibited pieces including terra-cotta “Grief” and mahogany “Violinist”[7]
Illinois
- Illinois Museum, “Art Gallery Exhibit”, February 15 to April 15, 1957, exhibited pieces including “Bathers”, “Baseball”, “Musicians”, and “Clown”[7]
National
Awards
- Sculpture Medal, Newark Art Club, Newark, NJ, 1933[4]
- Gold Medal, Paris International Exposition, Paris, France, 1937[4]
- First Honor for Wood Sculpture, New Mexico State Fair, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1941[4]
- Second Honor for Ceramics, New Mexico State Fair, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1941[4]
- Honorary Membership of the Eugene Field Society National Association of Authors and Journalists, awarded March 19, 1941[4]
- First-Place Award in Sculpture, Annual New Jersey State Exhibition, Montclair Museum, Montclair, NJ, 1948[4]
- Nellie Wright Allen Award, Jersey City Museum Exposition[4]
Work
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- Birds, Leonia Public Library, Leonia, New Jersey (installed 1981)
- untitled, Boonton Post Office, Boonton, New Jersey, (1938)
- Boonton Post Office, Boonton, New Jersey
- Children Reading, Union City Public Library, Union City, New Jersey (circa 1936-1939)
- Colonizing America, Center for Youth Education, Newark, New Jersey (1934)
- First Sisters Arriving at Port of Newark, Wooden Panel (1937)
- Little Indian Dancer, Englewood Public Library, Englewood, New Jersey
- Alexander Hamilton, Troy Public Library, Troy, New York
- bird bath, Music, Science, Union City Library, Union City, New Jersey
- The Post Office 1790, United States Post Office, Mt. Holly, New Jersey (1937)
- On the Range, Deaf Smith County Museum, Hereford, Texas (1941)
- On the Range, Smithsonian American Art Museum (1941)
- Untitled Sculptural Frieze, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York[8]
- Tackle, Private collection, 1950[9]
- 5 Arts and Crafts "Filmstrips" Series, published by Encyclopedia Brittanica, 1954[4]
- "Tin Craft as a Hobby", Harper Brother Publishers, 1934, favorably reviewed by the World Telegram and N.Y. Times in 1934
- "Practical Woodcarving Projects", Harper Brothers Publishers, 1940[4]
- "Signs and Symbols in Christian Art", Oxford University Press (Illustrator only)[4]
- "Christian Symbols in Italian Art", MacMillan Publishers (Illustrator only)[4]
- "Forsaking All Others", Alice Duer Miller, Simon and Schuster Publishers, 1931, illustrations only, drawings of N.Y. scenes[4]
- Various Articles in National Sculpture Review[4]
- Various Articles in American Artist Magazine, including March 1965, "My Wood Sculpture" & June 1968, "Sculptors Hartwig & Glinsky"[4]
References
- Burstyn, Joan N. (1 October 1996). Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women. Syracuse University Press. pp. 234–235. ISBN 9780815604181. Retrieved 13 June 2017 – via Google Books.
- "Enid Bell". www.papillongallery.com. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
- McGlauflin, Alice Coe, ed., ‘’Who’s Who in American Art 1938-1939” vol.2, The American Federation of Arts, Washington D.C., 1937 p.47
- "Enid Bell's Home Page". www.enidbell.com. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
- "Enid Bell - Artist, Fine Art Prices, Auction Records for Enid Bell". www.askart.com. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
- "Enid Bell". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
- "Enid Bell's Home Page". www.enidbell.com. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
- "SIRIS - Smithsonian Institution Research Information System". siris-artinventories.si.edu. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
- www.artnet.com https://www.artnet.com/artists/enid-bell/tackle-ZGF1BvLOiABDe86bjBC0pg2. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
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