Dotty Attie

American, born 1938

BiographyDotty Attie was born in 1938 in Pennsauken, New Jersey. She lives in New York City, utilizing images from the art of the past in her work and social commentary. Her art education includes a B.F.A. degree in 1959 from the Philadelphia College of Art; a Beckmann Fellowship in 1960 at the Brooklyn Museum Art School in New York; and the Art Students League, New York in 1967.

She received a Creative Artists Public Service grant in 1976-1977 from the New York State Council on the Arts, and National Endowment for the Arts grants in 1976-1977 and 1983-1984.

Attie's exhibitions include the University of Chicago, Illinois; Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia; Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut; University of Rhode Island, Kingston; Corcoran Biennial, Washington, D.C., and O.K. Harris Gallery, New York City.

Dotty Attie's work is in the collections of the National Museum of Women in the Arts; University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock; University of North Carolina, Greensboro; and Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford, New Jersey.

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