Flora Crockett (1892-1979)
About Flora Crockett
Flora Crockett is a newly discovered American abstractionist whose career spanned the middle decades of the 20th century. During the 1920s and 1930s, Crockett spent more than ten years in Paris exhibiting her work at various galleries and studying at Fernand Léger’s Académie Moderne, where she eventually became the director. She returned to New York in the late 1930s, exhibited at the Bonestell Gallery and at the Riverside Museum with the Bombshell Artists Group. Crockett also worked for the WPA as a teacher and participant in the mural program. Roberta Smith wrote in The New York Times that Crockett’s body of work could, “hold its own in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art or the Museum of Modern Art and in the history of American abstract painting.”
Crockett's paintings have been placed in important private collections around the country. Her work is represented in the collection of Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut; Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, Maine; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; and is also on view at the Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, Florida.
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News & Press
Multiple Museums Acquire Flora Crockett Paintings, November 1, 2022
Yale University Art Gallery Acquires Flora Crockett Painting, January 10, 2020
Hyperallergic, Flora Crockett Should No Longer Be Written Out of History, June 4, 2017, by John Yau