Janet Lippincott
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Janet Lippincott (16 May 1918 – May 2, 2007) was an American artist born in New York City, who lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, from 1946 until her death.[1][2][3] She was a part of an artistic movement called the New Mexico Modernists. Her work was abstract, and she worked in a variety of painting media and also made prints.[4]
Lippincott was the sister of W.J. Lippincott, who headed Lord & Taylor in New York,[5] and of David McCord Lippincott who wrote the songs Daddy Was A Yale Man and Saving Ourselves For Yale. She spent part of her childhood in Paris, where she was exposed to modernist painters.[4]
She attended the Art Students League of New York, and subsequently enrolled in the Women's Army Corps during World War II, working on Eisenhower's staff.[4][6] In 1941–42, during the London Blitz, a building collapsed around her and she broke her back.[4] In 1949, Lippincott attended the Emil Bisttram School for Transcendentalism in Taos, New Mexico.[7] After studying with Bisttram and Alfred Morang, she took a job at the San Francisco Art Institute, and returned to New Mexico in 1954, establishing a house and studio in Santa Fe.[4][8]
She was friends with the artist Elmer Schooley.[9]
Upon her death in 2007, her estate, including documents, sketchbooks, and artworks, was donated to St. John's College in Santa Fe.[4][8]