Sally Hazelet Drummond
American painter (1924-2017)
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Sally Hazelet Drummond (1924–2017) was an American artist known for her minimalist paintings.[1] She took inspiration from Georges Seurat's pointillism paintings, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte in particular.[2]
June 4, 1924
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| Born | Sally Potter Hazelet June 4, 1924 Evanston, Illinois |
| Died | April 9, 2017 (aged 92) Germantown, New York |
| Alma mater | Columbia University, Institute of Design, Hite Art Institute |
| Movement | Minimalism |
Drummond née Hazelet was born on June 4, 1924, in Evanston, Illinois.[3] She grew up with her mother, father, and older sister.[2] She attended Columbia University, the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, and the University of Louisville's Hite Art Institute.[4] In the 1950s she exhibited at the Tanager Gallery on 10th Street in New York City.[5] In 1967 she was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.[6]
Drummond died on April 9, 2017[4] in Germantown, New York.[5] Her work is in the Buffalo AKG Art Museum,[7] the Hood Museum of Art,[8] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[9] the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,[10] the Museum of Modern Art,[11] and the Whitney Museum of American Art.[12]
In 2015 Gallery X at the Hite Art Institute held a retrospective of her work entitled Iconoclastic Fervor: Sally Hazelet Drummond's Road to Abstraction.[13][14]