Description
Betty Guy was an American artist from San Francisco, California, best known for her works on paper of cityscape and landscape subjects. She worked in watercolors and pen and ink, and also made monotypes and limited edition prints. She studied art at San Francisco State University and in the graduate program of the University of California at Berkeley. She also studied at the Art Students League in New York and in Paris at the Alliance Française and at the L’Académie de la Grande Chaumière. She exhibited regularly in her home city throughout her long career and had her first museum exhibition there in 1961 at the Palace of the Legion of Honor. Guy also showed her work in galleries in Tokyo, Vienna, and elsewhere, and at the American Embassy in Bonn, Germany. She received numerous commissions from the Port of San Francisco and corporate clients.
Condition: Generally very good with the usual overall light toning, wear, handling.
Reference:
Strong, Mark. “Betty Guy Biography.” Askart.com. 2021. https://www.askart.com/artist/Betty_Guy/11142629/Betty_Guy.aspx (12 February 2021).
