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Mildred Rackley (1906-1992) was an American artist known for her printmaking. She is also known for her work in medical services in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.
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Mildred Rackley (1906-1992) was an American artist known for her printmaking. She is also known for her work in medical services in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.
Biography
Rackley was born on October 13, 1906, inCarlsbad
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, New Mexico Territory
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. She attended the University of Texas and completed her education at the Las Vegas, N.M. Normal School. In 1927 she began a teaching career, teaching high school in Taos, New Mexico. There she became acquainted with, and influenced by Walter Ufer
Walter Ufer (July 22, 1876 – August 2, 1936) was an American artist based in Taos, New Mexico. His most notable work focuses on scenes of Native American life, particularly of the Pueblo Indians.
Life and career
Ufer was born in Germany a ...
of the Taos Society of Artists The Taos Society of Artists was an organization of visual arts founded in Taos, New Mexico. Established in 1915, it was disbanded in 1927. The Society was essentially a commercial cooperative, as opposed to a stylistic collective, and its foundation ...
. Around 1930 she traveled to Europe with her then-husband, Hans Paap.
In 1935 Rackley moved to New York City. There she worked for the American League Against War and Fascism's magazine ''Fight'' and joined the Artists Union and the American Communist Party.
She returned to Europe again in 1937 where she helped organize and American hospital for the volunteers fighting in the Spanish Civil War. She returned to America in 1938
Rackley's work was included in the 1940 MoMA
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show ''American Color Prints Under $10'' The show was organized as a vehicle for bringing affordable fine art print
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s to the general public. She was also included in the 1947 and the 1951 Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
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exhibitions of the National Serigraph Society. She also exhibited her work at the Art Institute of Chicago
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and the Carnegie International
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.
During World War II Rackley worked in shipyards in California. After the war she was active in the ''Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade'' (VALB).
Rackley died on November 19, 1992 in Lafayette, California. She was married twice; first to Hans Paap, then to Rawlings Simon. Rackley's work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art
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.
References
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images of Rackley's work
on ARTnet {{DEFAULTSORT:Rackley, Mildred 1906 births 1992 deaths Artists from New Mexico 20th-century American women artists University of Texas alumni New Mexico Highlands University alumni