Cynthia Osborne (1947-2018) received a B.A. in studio art (1969) from Connecticut College and an M.F.A. in printmaking (1971) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Other education includes a Tamarind Lithography Workshop and Lithographic History Seminar at the Rare Book School in Virginia. She has exhibited in group juried and invitational shows throughout the United States and internationally, and held a MacDowell Fellowship. Her work is in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum, and Smithsonian Museum of American Art. Osborne has been on the faculty at CSULB since 1975, and currently teaches Lithography as well as holds the positions of graduate advisor and student gallery director for the School of Art. Professor Osborne's prints have been concerned with narrative imagery in the tradition of the rendered lithographic crayon drawing on stone, with forays into tusche washes, transfer processes, and screen printing.
Cynthia Osborne
Studios
Putnam
Cynthia Osborne worked in the Putnam studio.
The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…