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Ebba Rapp
| Last Name: | Rapp |
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| First Name: | Ebba |
| Dates: |
*1909 (Date of Birth)
*1985 (Date of Death)
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| Biography/History: | Ebba Rapp (1909-1985) was born and raised in Seattle and became a first-rate painter by the early 1930s. When Alexander Archipenko gave one of several visiting classes at the University of Washington, Rapp attended and introduced sculpture into her work. She assisted Archipenko in his classes and was asked to start the first sculpture department at her alma mater, Seattle’s progressive Cornish College of the Arts, in 1938. One of the only female sculptors active in Seattle in the 1930s and 1940s, Rapp was recognized nationally when one of her sculptures was included in the American Art Today exhibition at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Besides painting and sculpture, she was an accomplished craftswoman and was one of the founders of the Seattle Clay Club. She mastered the art of enameling and also worked with Peter Voulkos (1924-2002) at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana, during the 1950s. In addition to her national exhibitions, she completed numerous portrait and architectural commissions throughout the state. |
| Related Objects: |
4091.1 (Sculpture, Lot's Wife, circa 1950 - 1955)
4091.2 (Print; Lithograph, Girl with Lamb, circa 1936 - 1937)
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