Watercolor on paper, 1960, matted and framed under glass.

Sheet sight 11 x 15 in. Frame dimensions 17 1/2 x 21 3/8 in.

Cora Kelley Ward was born in Eunice, Louisiana. Ward studied painting at the Newcomb Art School and received a Master of Arts degree from Hunter College in New York. In the summers of 1949 and 1950, she attended Black Mountain College in Asheville, North Carolina where she studied under Josef Albers (1888-1976) and was introduced to color theory and Abstract Expressionism. Ward also attended two classes with the famed art critic, Clement Greenberg, who would become a life-long friend.

Upon moving to New York City in 1955, Ward pursued painting and photography, her work centered on late Abstract Expressionist theories of color and shape. Following her death, Clement Greenberg hosted a memorial exhibition of her work in New York, and a large portion of Ward's estate was gifted to the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum of Louisiana in Lafayette, which later featured an exhibition entitled "Cora Kelley Ward: A Work in Progress" in the summer of 2012.

Good estate condition, very slight mat burn, a spot in center left, not examined out of frame.