Born: 1898, United States
Died: 12 July 1992
Country most active: United States
Also known as: NA
The following is republished from New Jersey Women’s History, in line with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Elsie Driggs (1898-1992) was the only woman artist who participated in the Precisionist movement in American art.
The movement focused on the machine age, with industrial images depicted in geometrically simplified compositions. Her abstract rendition of the Queensborough Bridge, painted in 1927, exemplifies the subject matter and style associated with this 1920s art movement.
References:
Kimmerle, Constance. 2008. Elsie Driggs: the quick and the classical : [exhibition, James A. Michener Art Museum, January 19-April 13, 2008]. Bucks County, Penn: James A. Michener Art Museum. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/496910299
Burstyn, Joan N. 1990. “Elsie Driggs”. Past and Promise, Lives of New Jersey Women. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54794986