Alice Asmar
American, born 1929
- Names
Alice Asmar
Asmar, Alice
- Born
Flint 1929
- Active
- Died
- Occupation or Type
printmaker
Northwest artist
Oregon artist
- Bio
Alice Asmar grew up in Portland and, by age ten, gained local recognition for designing and painting a "cathedral" window for her elementary school. At sixteen she won a four-year scholarship to Lewis and Clark College, graduated in 1949, then continued her training at the University of Washington and in Paris. She was the director of the Uitti Gallery in Seattle prior to 1955, when she accepted a position as an art teacher at Lewis and Clark College, Portland. She moved to California in 1960. Asmar exhibited throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, where she continued to win numerous awards. Asmar's work is a combination of realism and expressionism. Some of her favorite subjects were the Native American people of the Southwest.
Artist biography reproduced with permission from the authors, Oregon Painters: the First Hundred Years (1859-1959), Ginny Allen and Jody Klevit.
- Gender
Female
