Researching Elizabeth Terrell
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 504 people with the Terrell surname? In that year Terrell was ranked number 3075 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name Elizabeth means "consecrated to God" and is of Hebrew origin.
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Elizabeth Terrell
alt=Industrial Landscape, gouache on paper, by Elizabeth Terrell, ca. 1939|thumb|Industrial Landscape, gouache on paper, by Elizabeth Terrell, ca. 1939Elizabeth E. Terrell (1908 – 1993) was an American artist who completed works for the Works Progress Administration. Born in Toledo, Ohio, Terrell is known for her abstract and modern figures, still life paintings, and murals. Her work appears in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Whitney Museum of American Art. She did frescos, mixed media, mosaics, gouache and oil paintings. She produced a mural at the Starke, Florida Post Office titled "Reforestation" (1942). She was part of an exhibition with Rufino Tamayo and Julian Levi at the Ottumwa Art Center in Ottumwa, Iowa.
The post office in Conyers, Georgia contains the mural, The Ploughman, (tempera on paperboard) painted by Terrell in 1940. It was funded as part of an arts program by the United States government, 1934 to 1943, through the Section of Painting and Sculpture, later called the Section of Fine Arts, of the Treasury Department.
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