Eve Garrison

Eve Josephson Garrison (1903-2003) was a modernist painter. Her early works focused on a realist style including landscapes and cityscapes, specifically depicting Chicago, Colorado, and Mexico.[1][2] She also painted nudes and portraits and increasingly abstract and textured art in later life.[3] She suggested creating work for juried shows and annuals was not the way "to be a great artists!" Instead, she began making work that felt was more expressive of her ideas. In the sixties she began making work that she termed "sculptural relief oil paintings." This involved a process of embedding objects such as seeds, branches, glass, and string into the paint.[4][5] During the period she was producing more abstract work she had solo exhibitions in New York, Detroit, Milwaukee, Miami, Paris, and London.[6]

Eve Garrison
Born	Eve Josephson (1903-04-22)April 22, 1903 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Died	April 17, 2003(2003-04-17) (aged 99) Chicago, Illinois, United States
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Art Institute of Chicago (1930)
Known for	Painting
Style	Landscape art Portraiture Abstract art
Movement	Modernism Realism
Spouse(s)	Joseph D. Garrison

In 1957, Garrison, along with twenty-three other artists, including Leo Segedin, co-founded Exhibit A, the first post-war, artist-run cooperative gallery in Chicago.[7][8]