Hollis Sigler
Hollis Sigler | |
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| Born | 1948 Gary, Indiana |
| Died | March 29, 2001 Prairie View, Illinois |
| Nationality | U.S. citizen |
| Occupation(s) | Artist, educator |
| Known for | Art works about breast cancer |
Hollis Sigler was a Chicago-based artist whose paintings addressed her life with breast cancer. She died of the disease in 2001, at the age of 53.[1] She received degrees from both Moore College of Art and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, her mature style was faux-naïve, featuring paintings whose subjects, furniture and clothing set in doll-house type interiors and suburban landscapes, were stand-ins for the implicitly female figure. She was an openly lesbian artist[2] and a prominent member of the faculty of Columbia College in Chicago. After being diagnosed with breast cancer in 1986, Sigler’s themes became more personal, confronting ideas about body image, heredity, illness, mortality and hope. [3]
Works in Public Collections
Art works by Hollis Sigler are in the collections of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; Art Institute of Chicago, Baltimore Museum of Art, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the National Gallery of Art in Washington. DC, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and Seattle Art Museum.
References
- ^ Cotter, Holland, Obituaries, The New York Times, Tuesday, April 3, 2001
- ^ Corinne, Tee A., “Chicago Painter Hollis Sigler, 1948-2001”, http://artcataloguing.net/glc/qcan012/qcan012d.html Accessed 11/21/2003
- ^ Fleming, Lee, “Journal of Joy & Sorrow: Hollis Sigler’s Emotion-Drenched ‘Breast Cancer’ Paintings”, Washington Post, P. B1 9/20/93