When she finally gained her own studio space in the mid-1960s and subsequently returned to New York, these watercolor techniques and spontaneous strategies of making art were further refined and developed in highly imaginative and evocative oil paintings and multimedia constructions. Elsie Driggs: The Quick and the Classical highlights the work of an artist who explored a diverse range of styles and subject matter throughout her long career. While previous scholarship has focused on the precise craftsmanship, wit, and delicate beauty of her work, Elsie Driggs: The Quick and the Classical explores the ideological and emotional richness of the body of work she produced from 1918 through the late 1980s. As Constance Kimmerle suggests, Driggs's lifelong passion to blend "the quick and the classical" resulted not only from her fascination with the work of Paul Cezanne and Piero della Francesca but also from her view of art as a process of discovery and experimentation.
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