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ID: 500464806
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500464806

 

Record Type: Person
Pusey, Mavis (American painter, 1928-2019, born in Jamaica)

Note: Painter of geometric abstraction inspired by Manhattan architecture and its endless cycle of assembly and destruction. She moved from Kingston, Jamaica to New York City in the 1940s to study at the Art Students League. She lived and worked in Virginia from the late 1980s. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Studio Museum in Harlem; and the Birmingham Museum of Art.

Names:
Pusey, Mavis (preferred,U,index)
Mavis Pusey (U,display)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)
Jamaican
African American

Roles:
artist (preferred)
painter

Gender: female

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Jamaica (North and Central America) (nation)
Died:  Virginia (United States) (state)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
student of ....  Barnet, Will  
..................  (American painter and printmaker, 1911-2012) [500010278]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Pusey, Mavis (I,U)

Biographies:
(American painter, 1928-2019, born in Jamaica) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American artist, born 1928) ..... [MoMA]
(American painter and printmaker, born 1928) ..... [NMWA]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Mavis Pusey ........ [MoMA]
........................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
Pusey, Mavis ........ [MoMA Preferred, NMWA Preferred, VP]
..........................  Artforum [online] (2004-) obit.
..........................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..........................  Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Magnetic Fields (2017) 126-136
..........................  MoMA, Spreadsheet of artist authority designations (2019-) 4760
..........................  National Museum of Women in the Arts Collection Records
..........................  NMWA database (2018-)

Subject: ........ [MoMA, NMWA, VP]
....................  MoMA, Spreadsheet of artist authority designations (2019-) 4760
....................  NMWA database (2018-)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Artforum [online] (2004-) obit.
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