Worden Day (1912-1986) , painter, printmaker, and sculptor was born in Columbus, Ohio. Day earned her B.A. from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in 1934, then moved to New York City where she attended the New School of Social Research, the Florence Crane School, and the Art Students’ League. In 1943 she worked at Stanley William Hayter’s Atelier 17 in New York. She received her M.A. degree in 1966 from New York University at the age of 54.
Day taught at the University of Wyoming at Laramie, Pratt Institute, the New School of Social Research and the Art Students’ League. In the late 1960s she began working primarily with sculpture and had a solo exhibition at the Sculpture Center in New York in 1972. She was honored with J. Rosenwald Awards and two Guggenheim Fellowships. Her work is represented in the collections of Library of Congress, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Worcester Art Museum.
Worden in Montclair, New Jersey, shortly before a retrospective was due to open at the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton.
Portrait by Robert Lurie
