Mona Magdeleine Beaumont (

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Mona Magdeleine Marx; 1 January 1927 – 29 August 2007) was a French-born American painter and printmaker. She is known for abstract and in a cubist-style work, with subject matter in non-objective figure and still life. Beaumont lived in

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, California, and the

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for many years, and was an important figure in painting there in the 1960s.

Biography

Mona Beaumont was born January 1, 1927, in Paris, France. Her birthday has also been documented as 1 January 1932. She attended

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where she received both Bachelor's and Master's degrees and continued her master's studies at Fogg Art Museum and

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(M.A. degree). Additionally she studied under modern artist

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at the Hans Hofmann Studio. In 1946, she married William Gerald Beaumont, and together had two children. She received multiple awards including the Grey Foundation Purchase Award (1963), a prize at the Jack London Square Art Festival (1965), San Francisco Arts Festival Purchase Award and One–Person Exhibition Award (1966, 1975), and the Ackerman Award from

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Annual (1968).

Death and legacy

She died on 29 August 2007 in San Diego, California. Her work is part of the collections at the

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, and the

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. the Bulart Foundation in San Francisco; Grey Foundation in Washington, D.C.; Hoover Foundation in Palo Alto, California; and the Oakland Art Museum of California.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

* 1960 – ''Mona Beaumont'', solo exhibition, Galeria Protea, Mexico City, Mexico * 1967 – ''Mona Beaumont'', solo exhibition, Pomeroy Galleries, 449 Pacific Avenue, San Francisco, California; this exhibition travelled to

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the same year.

Group exhibitions

* 1945 – group exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York * 1964 – ''The Square Drawing'', group exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California * 1965 – group exhibition, 11th Annual Jack London Square Art Festival, Oakland, California * 1970 – ''Annual

exhibition'', group exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California * 1975 – group exhibition, San Francisco Arts Festival, San Francisco, California * 1977 – group exhibition, 31st Annual San Francisco Arts Festival, San Francisco, California * 1977 – ''The 1975 exhibition award winners from San Francisco Arts Festival'', group exhibition curated by Hayward Ellis King,

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, Palo Alto, California

References

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