Beatrice Riese was born in The Hague, Netherlands, in 1917, spent her childhood in Germany until 1933, and fled the Nazi regime with her family to Paris, where she began to study at the Paris Art School in 1936. The Riese family moved to the United States in 1940, and she continued art studies in New York under the painter and printmaker Will Barnet and the abstract expressionist painter Clyfford Still. She began exhibiting her artworks during the 1950s. Now internationally known for her paintings and textile designs, Riese is president of the American Abstract Artists Association and a member of the Snite Museum s advisory council. The museum is closed on Mondays and holidays.
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