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Dahlov Ipcar is best known for her vibrant collage-style paintings of jungle and farm animals. This clearly evident love of animals is due in part to the summers she spent with her family in Maine. In 1923 the Zorach family (her parents were the famous artists William and Marguerite Zorach) bought a farm at Robinhood Cove in Georgetown, Maine. It was during a Maine summer that Dahlov met her future husband Adolph Ipcar. They married in September 1936 and after living in New York City for a short time, they moved permanently to Maine. where she still lives today.
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"The real world may come to seem oppressively dull and barren unless transformed and revitalized by imagination."---Dahlov IpcarRepresenting more than seventy years of work, this volume is the first retrospective publication of Dahlov Ipcar's art. Best known for her vibrant collage-style paintings of animals, Ipcar's talents have earned her wide recognition. Her work is included in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Her numerous solo shows include a one-woman show at the Museum of Modern Art in 1939, when she was 21. She has received the Maine State Award from the Maine Arts Commission, the Deborah Morton Award from Westbrook College, honorary doctorates from the University of Maine and Colby College, a Women of Achievement Award from Westbrook College, and a Living Legacy Award from the Central Maine Area Agency on Aging.In addition to being a successful painter, Ipcar has illustrated more than thirty children's books, many of which she also wrote, and she has written four novels. Now in her nineties, she still paints every day at her home in Georgetown, Maine.
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