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LOIS FIELD (American 1923 - 2010)

Lois Field was a painter, photographer, and beloved educator. 

Field was born in Berwyn, MD in 1923 and raised in Patterson, NJ. Field became involved in the arts at a very young age; she posed for sculptor Gaetano Federici as a teen and studied at both the Newark School of Fine & Industrial Arts and the Art Students League in New York City. However, Field was dissatisfied with her early art education and practice. It wasn’t until Field began studying at the Institute of Design in Chicago that she found herself as an artist, and became interested in art education, going on to teach at several institutions throughout America. Field credited her time at the Institute of Design for this life change, saying “My four years at the Institute of Design, led me to a career in teaching because I had discovered a new approach to art, to education, to thinking, to life, that was so exciting I wanted to pass it on. I passed it on to students in Chicago; Milwaukee; Webster Groves, Missouri...” Field passed away in 2010 at the age of 86.