Mildred Waltrip Explained

Mildred Waltrip
Birth Place:Nebo, KY
Death Place:Tulsa, OK[1]

Mildred Waltrip (1911–2004) was an American artist and illustrator.

Waltrip suffered from polio during her lifetime, and wore leg braces.[2] [3] She received her art education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Waltrip took part in the Works Progress Administration's art program, completing the murals World Map and People and American Characters in 1938 at the Hatch Elementary School in Oak Park, Chicago.[4] [5] [6] In 1995 the murals were removed, as they portrayed Africans stereotypically, "carrying spears, wearing loincloths and sporting prominent red lips," according to a Chicago Tribune article by Joanne von Alroth.[4] [5] [6] The removed murals were placed in storage.[7]

By the mid 1950s she was illustrating children's books, including Molecules Today and Tomorrow[8] and Research Adventures for Young Scientists.[9]

Books illustrated

Museum collections

Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[15] the Detroit Institute of Arts,[16] the Baltimore Museum of Art,[17] the Art Institute of Chicago,[18] the National Gallery of Art, Washington[19] and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.[20]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mildred Waltrip – Illinois Women Artists . illinoiswomenartists.org.
  2. Web site: Miller . Sarah Bryan . Face The Wall . Chicago Reader . 16 March 1995 . en.
  3. Web site: writer . John McDonough, a free-lance . ART'S GREAT PAGEANT . chicagotribune.com.
  4. Web site: These Depression-Era Chicago School Murals Sparked Debates About Art And Politics . WBEZ Chicago . en . 11 August 2019.
  5. Web site: Pasternak . Judy . Murals' racial images confront worldly suburb : Stereotypes featured in school's WPA artworks disturb some Oak Park parents. Specter of censorship upsets others. . Los Angeles Times . 2 March 1995.
  6. Web site: von Alroth . Joanne . OAK PARK SCHOOL TO DROP DISPUTED MURALS IN SPRING . chicagotribune.com.
  7. Book: Gray . Mary Lackritz . A Guide to Chicago's Murals . University of Chicago Press . en . April 2001. 9780226305967 .
  8. Web site: Mildred Waltrip, Illustrator . Chicago Tribune . 226 . 12 May 1963.
  9. Book: The Publishers Weekly . F. Leypoldt . en . 1964.
  10. Book: Thomas . Myra H. . The Education of Disadvantaged Children . 1966 . Office of Education, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare . en.
  11. Book: A.L.A. Booklist . 1957 . The Board . en.
  12. Book: Office . Library of Congress Copyright . Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1958: July-December . 1959 . Copyright Office, Library of Congress . en.
  13. Book: Congress . Library of . Library of Congress Catalog: Books: subjects . 1960 . J. W. Edwards . en.
  14. Web site: Barr . George . Waltrip . Mildred . Science projects for young people . New York : Dover Publications . 1986.
  15. Web site: Mildred Waltrip Smithsonian American Art Museum . americanart.si.edu.
  16. Web site: Art: Collection Search . www.dia.org . en.
  17. Web site: The Baltimore Museum of Art . collection.artbma.org.
  18. Web site: Mildred Waltrip . The Art Institute of Chicago . en.
  19. Web site: Stop 8 . www.nga.gov.
  20. Web site: Mildred Waltrip MoMA . The Museum of Modern Art . en.

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