Jennett Brinsmade Lam (1911–1985) was an American painter born in Ansonia, Connecticut. She earned her bachelor’s degree of fine arts and her M.F.A. from Yale University in 1954 and 1960 respectively. She also taught for many years at the University of Bridgeport, eventually being named professor emerita before retiring in 1972. During her career, Lam exhibited across the United States and abroad in collections at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and many more renowned galleries. A collection of her papers is held by the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian.
Discipline:
Visual Art – painting
Jennett Lam
Discipline:
Visual Art – painting
MacDowell Fellowships: 1960, 1961
Studios
New Hampshire
Jennett Lam worked in the New Hampshire studio.
New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…