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Sep 23, 1903 Died on 30 Sep 1974 (aged 71)

American painter

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  • E Boyd (September 23, 1903—September 30, 1974) was a painter, museum employee and scholar on the Spanish colonial art of New Mexico. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as Elizabeth Boyd White, she preferred to be called by the gender-neutral "E Boyd".
  • Boyd studied embroidery, interior design and painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts before attending the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris.
  • She moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the fall of 1929 and began exhibiting her paintings locally soon after.
  • In 1933 she co-founded and began exhibiting with the Rio Grande Painters, a group that included Charles Barrows, Eleanor Cowles, Anne Stockton, James Stovall Morris, Gina Schnaufer, Paul Lantz, and Cady Wells.
  • As secretary of the group she was responsible for organizing exhibitions.After the Rio Grande Painters disbanded in 1936, Boyd received funding from the Fine Arts Program of the U.S.
  • General Services Administration to complete watercolors and conduct research documenting designs from 18th and 19th century artifacts in New Mexico.
  • These watercolors were used by Manville Chapman to create woodblocks that were then hand-colored by numerous individuals and reproduced in 1938 in the Portfolio of Spanish Colonial Design in New Mexico.
  • The Portfolio was a forerunner of and contributor to the national Index of American Design. Boyd's first book, Saint and Saint Makers, was published in 1946.
  • It was considered the first truly scholarly and well-researched book on the subject of santos.
  • From 1945 to 1951 Boyd primarily lived in Los Angeles.
  • She worked at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from 1949 to 1951 first as a Librarian and then as Registrar.
  • When her friend, Cady Wells, donated his collection of santos to the Museum of New Mexico in 1951, he recommended her as the collection's curator.
  • Boyd and the collection were initially housed in the New Mexico Museum of Art before they were moved to the Museum of International Folk Art.
  • The culmination of her life's research on the subject was the publication in 1968 of the book Popular Arts of Colonial New Mexico.
  • In honor of her work for the state, Boyd was awarded the New Mexico's Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts in 1974.

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