Maria Alquilar

Maria Alquilar
Born Barbara Pincus
(1928-05-28)May 28, 1928
New York City
Died June 5, 2014(2014-06-05) (aged 86)
Sacramento, California
Nationality American
Known for Ceramics, Painting, Murals

Maria Alquilar (also known as Barbara Taffet, neé Pincus,[1] May 25, 1928 - June 5, 2014) was an American ceramic artist. Her work is featured at the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[2] and collections of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the San Francisco Arts Commission, and the Downey Museum.[3] She was the founder of the Jennifer Pauls Gallery in Sacramento.[1]

Biography

Barbara Pincus was born in New York City[4] in 1928.[1] Her father was Spanish and her mother was Russian Jewish.[4] She earned a bachelor of arts in 1955 from Hunter College.[3] Pincus married Frank Taffet in 1949. When Taffet died in 1973, she changed her name to Maria Alquilar.[1] Beginning in the 1980s Alquilar lived in Santa Cruz, California and Miami, Florida.[1]

In 2004, she was commissioned by the city of Livermore, California to create a mural for the city's new public library. When the $40,000 mural was unveiled in October 2004, the names of two books and 11 prominent historical figures, such as Albert Einstein, were misspelled. She initially refused to fix the mural, citing artistic license. However, she quietly returned to correct the misspellings the following summer.[5][6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Dávila, Robert D. (16 June 2014). "Obituary: Maria Alquilar, 86, was artist and owner of Jennifer Pauls Gallery". Sacramento Bee. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  2. ↑ "Maquette for Bien Venida y Vaya Con Dios". Smithsonian American Art Museum Renwick Gallery. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  3. 1 2 Heller, Jules; Heller, Nancy G., eds. (1995). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. p. 20. ISBN 9781135638825.
  4. 1 2 "Luce Artist Quote". Smithsonian American Art Museum Renwick Gallery. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  5. ↑ "Library's artist should have checked out a dictionary / 11 of mosaic's 175 famous names misspelled". Retrieved 2016-09-04.
  6. ↑ "Artist corrects her infamous spelling mistakes in Livermore mural". Retrieved 2016-09-04.


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