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Mabel Alvarez

Mabel Alvarez was considered a painter and lithographer. She was born in Oahu, Hawaii on November 28, 1891. Alvarez moved with her family to California in 1906. Settling in Los Angeles, she studied with James E. McBurney, William Cahill, Stanton MacDonal Wright and Morgan Russell. An advocate of modern art, her work includes figures, still lifes and portraits. She died in Los Angeles on March 13, 1985.

Member: Group of Eight Los Angeles Artist Association California Art Club San Diego Fine Art Association American Federation of Art Los Angeles Museum Association Exhibited: San Francisco Art Association, 1918 Art Institute Chicago, 1923 Museum of Modern Art, 1933 Calif. State Fair, 1950 San Joaquin Pioneer Museum, 1950 Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, 1951 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, (solo) 1929, 1941, 1954, 1955. Awards: Silver, Panama Calif. Expo, San Diego, 1916 California Art club, 1918, 1919, 1931 Federal Women's Club, 1923 Laguna Beach Art association, 1928 Ebell Club of Los Angeles, 1933-1935 Oakland Art Gallery, 1938 Honolulu Public Museum, 1939 Madonna Art Festival, Los Angeles, 1954 Laguna Beach Museum, 1984

Biography courtesy of Roughton Galleries, www.antiquesandfineart.com/roughton

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