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Joy Carrington (1907 - 1999), Lakeside View, oil
Joy Carrington (1907 - 1999), Lakeside View, oil
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Joy Carrington (1907 - 1999), Lakeside View, oil on canvas, 22 x 28 in. canvas size

Painter Joy Faye Harrell Carrington was born in 1907 in Jacksonville, Texas, although she is associated with the city of San Antonio. She studied at the Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri; Art Students League, New York City; and Chicago Art Institute, Illinois for a total of ten years. After three years in Kansas City, she studied with Robert Brackman during her four years at the League and in Noank, Connecticut; and with Constantine Pougialis during three years in Chicago.
A commercial artist and teacher, as well as a painter, she was a member of the Coppini Academy of Fine Arts, in San Antonio; and the Texas Fine Arts Association. Carrington exhibited in the San Antonio Local Artists Annual Exhibition, 1935-37, 1959; Coppini Academy of Fine Arts, San Antonio, where she won an honorable mention in 1955; exhibited again in 1956; won an award in 1958; exhibiting again in 1959; and at the Texas Fine Arts Association Exhibition, 1956. She had a one-woman exhibition at the Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio.
Joy Carrington's portrait of Clara Driscoll is in the Alamo Boardroom, San Antonio; an illuminated manuscript in the Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library, also in San Antonio. Information on the artist may be found in the Texas Artists Files, Witte Museum; Texas Fine Arts Association Records; and the Bandera Bulletin, March 3, 1999.
Joy Carrington lived on the family ranch in Medina, Texas, for the last forty years of her life. She died there in 1999, the last direct descendant of the pioneer Brady Anderson family.
Source:John and Deborah Powers, "Texas Painters, Sculptors and Graphic Artists"
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