Discipline: Visual Art

Elizabeth Voelker

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Burlingame, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1970, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979
Elizabeth Voelker (1931-2000) received her B.F.A. in 1953 from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, now Carnegie Mellon University. Voelker moved to San Francisco in 1958, and was a lecturer for museums in California and the University of California from 1972 to 1987. Among her achievements, Voelker received three grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation Grant to the Bellagio Study and Conference Center in Lake Como, Italy, and residences at the Djerassi Foundation in California and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She received international recognition for her work in places like the American Academy in Rome, and 16 pieces of her art were selected for the U.S. Department of State Art in Embassies Program as a presentation of American art abroad. Her art has been purchased by a number of public museums in the U.S., including the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Carnegie Institute Art Museum in Pittsburgh, PA.

Studios

Putnam

Elizabeth Voelker 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…

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