Beulah Barnes Weaver (1882 – 1957)

Moving Forms, c. 1947, oil on canvas, apparently unsigned, 23 ½ x 20 inches, exhibited The Twenty-Seventh Annual Exhibition of the Southern States Art League, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, March 28 – April 23, 1947 (label verso)

$8500

Beulah Barnes Weaver was a Washington DC-based painter, sculptor, and art instructor. Educated at the Art Students League and the Corcoran School of Art with Peppino Mangravite and Karl Knaths, Weaver deeply explored the American Scene during the 1930s. By the immediate post-War period, Weaver was steeped in the aesthetics of modernism informed by the teachings of Kandinsky and European Cubism. Moving Forms is typical of her work from this period. Weaver exhibited extensively along the East Coast, including at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, where Moving Forms was included in the Seventh Annual Exhibition of the Southern States Art League in 1947. Her works were also included in group shows at the National Gallery of Art, Phillips Gallery, Salons of America, and Corcoran Gallery. She was awarded prizes at the Independent Artists Exhibition (Washington DC - 1935) and the Society of Washington Artists (1935 and 1948), where she was also a member. Weaver is listed in Who Was Who in American Art and other standard references.