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Emmy Lou Packard"Shapes of Noyo" Woodblock Print on Paper (Artist's Proof)1965
1965
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"Shapes of Noyo" Woodblock Print on Paper (Artist's Proof)
Bold woodblock print by notable artist Emmy Lou Packard (American, 1914-1998). Large dark grey shapes are placed over a lighter grey background. Both of them have strong woodgrain texture. There are this white shapes floating around the composition, with a large block of blue in the upper right corner and a smaller block in the lower left.
Titled, numbered, and signed along the bottom edge: Shapes of Noyo Proof Packard
Presented in a dark wood frame with a grey mat.
Frame size: 18.75"H x 26.75"W
Image size: 11.5"H x 19.5"W
Emmy Lou Packard was born on April 15, 1914, near El Centro, California. In 1927, the Packard family traveled to Mexico. Emmy, then 13 years old, was already painting and drawing. Her mother introduced her to artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, marking the beginning of a long friendship and mentorship.
In 1934, she eloped to Nevada with the architect Burton Cairns, a recent graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. In 1936 Packard graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with her bachelor's degree and later studied sculpture, mural and fresco painting at the San Francisco Art Institute.
In 1939, her husband died in a car accident. After his death, she traveled to Mexico to live with Rivera and Kahlo, working as their studio assistant. During the time she stayed with Rivera and Kahlo, she took a number of photographs of the couple. When Diego Rivera came to San Francisco in 1940 for the Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE), he asked Emmy to be the chief assistant for painting the Pan American Unity mural.
Between 1944 and 1945, she briefly worked as an illustrator of a labor newspaper for the San Francisco Bay Area shipyards.
Packard designed and executed the mural on the exterior of the dining commons at the University of California, Berkeley in the Lower Sproul student union center. She also designed the terrace parapet which is embellished with an 85-foot long, 5-foot high, bas-relief, Modernist mural depicting California landscape features, including coastal bluffs, cultivated fields, mountains, and rivers located in the central façade of Chávez Student Center at the University of California, Berkeley in the Lower Sproul.
On May 29, 1959, she married artist Byron T. Randall; they divorced in 1972.
Packard was an active community member in the Mission District of San Francisco and San Francisco's community mural movement. In 1974 she served as a mural technical adviser for the Bank of America building mural located at Mission Street and 23rd Street; the local artists that painted this mural are Jesús “Chuy” Campusano, Luis Cortázar and Michael Rios. In 1960 and 1975, Packard and Dorothy Wagner Puccinelli restored murals, including Coit Tower.
Packard died February 22, 1998, in San Francisco, California.
In 2022, the Richmond Art Center held an exhibition of Packard's linocuts: "Emmy Lou Packard: Artist of Conscience."
- Creator:Emmy Lou Packard (1914 - 1998, American)
- Creation Year:1965
- Dimensions:Height: 18.75 in (47.63 cm)Width: 26.75 in (67.95 cm)Depth: 0.75 in (1.91 cm)
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- Condition:Very mild tonal ageing to paper, as expected. Frame has minor scratches from age (included as-is). New hanging hardware installed prior to shipping.
- Gallery Location:Soquel, CA
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