page_title: Elizabeth Olds
section_title: Early life and education
hierarchical_section_title: Elizabeth Olds / Early life and education
caption_attribution_description: English: Identification on verso (handwritten): Adolf Dehn; Elizabeth Old and&#160;?; Reginald Marsh facing camera. Idenfication on verso (handwritten and stamped): New York City W.P.A. Art Project; Photography Division; 110 King Street Negative No.: 5353-18.
context_page_description: Elizabeth Olds was an American artist known for her work in developing silkscreen as a fine arts medium. She was a painter and illustrator, but is primarily known as a printmaker, using silkscreen, woodcut, lithography processes. In 1926, she became the first female honored with the Guggenheim Fellowship. She studied under George Luks, was a Social Realist, and worked for the Public Works of Art Project and Federal Art Project during the Great Depression. In her later career, Olds wrote and illustrated six children's books.
context_section_description: Olds was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to a middle-class family. Olds's mother was an art historian, and her mother exposed Olds and her sister, Eleanor, to art through visits to the Walker Art Center and Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Olds's art was first documented in her high school yearbook, featuring a cartoon sketch of a goose at tea. She studied Home Economics and Architectural Drawing at the University of Minnesota from 1916-1918, and received a scholarship to study at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design from 1918-1921. In 1921, Olds received another scholarship to study at the Art Students League of New York where she studied under George Luks.
caption: Adolf Dehn, Olds, and unidentified, with Reginald Marsh facing camera, c.. 1937 (Archives of American Art)
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