Gloria F. Ross (1923–1998) was an American designer who was born and died in
New York City
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.
She was well known as a tapestry artist who worked in close collaboration with painters and weavers to create contemporary wall hangings. Ross's work is held in the
Minneapolis Institute of Art
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.
Early life and education
Ross was the second daughter of
Alfred Frankenthaler (1881–1940), a New York Supreme Court Justice, and Martha Lowenstein Frankenthaler (1895–1954).
Her sister was the abstract painter
Helen Frankenthaler
Helen Frankenthaler (December 12, 1928 – December 27, 2011) was an American abstract expressionist painter. She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her work for over six decades (early 1950s u ...
(1928–2011).
In 1943 Ross graduated from
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College is a private liberal arts women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It is the oldest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of elite historically women's colleges in the Northeastern United States.
...
.
Ross married Arthur Ross (1910–2007) in 1946 and had three children: Alfred (1946), Beverly (1948), and
Clifford (1952).
During the 1980s Ross was the first tapestry maker to translate into wool famous paintings, by such artists as
Kenneth Noland
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,
Robert Motherwell
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, Helen Frankenthaler,
Frank Stella
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Biography
Frank Stella was born in M ...
,
Jean Dubuffet
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,
Louise Nevelson
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Born in the Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Kyiv Oblast, ...
,
Jack Youngerman
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,
Romare Bearden
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, and others.
References
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1923 births
1998 deaths
American designers
American people of German-Jewish descent
Artists from New York City
Jewish American artists
20th-century American women artists
Mount Holyoke College alumni
American textile artists
Women textile artists