Winifred Estelle Phillips

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BORN: 1880 in Clay Banks, WI

DIES: 1963 in Milwaukee, WI
 
Best known for her work with ceramics, Winifred Estelle Phillips was also a painter, printmaker and art educator.

Born 1880 in Clay Banks, a very small community north of Algoma on Lake Michigan in S.E. Door County Wisconsin.

She left her hometown on the shore of Lake Michigan to move to Milwaukee to study art. There she attended the Wisconsin School of Art to work under the tutelage of Alexander Mueller and Gustave Moeller and also studied at the Pratt Institute in New York and with Frederick Fursman at the Art Institute of Chicago. 

In 1915 she studied ceramics at the School of Fine and Applied Arts in Alfred, New York and later attended the Cranbrook Academy in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. She received her degree from Milwaukee State Teachers College.
 
Beginning as an instructor in Wisconsin country schools; she later became the first ceramics teacher and head of the Art Department at Milwaukee Normal School which became Milwaukee State Teachers College, and is now the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She was invited to become a member of Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors in 1921 and exhibited her paintings with that group. 

Also a member of the Wisconsin Art Federation, the Art Students' League of Milwaukee, the N.A. Women Painters and Sculptors of New York, and the Wisconsin Society of Applied Arts, she participated in their exhibitions and won awards in 1936, 1937 and 1938.
 
A longtime resident of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin this versatile artist's work has been represented in the collections of the Syracuse Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, the Minneapolis Art Institute, the Museum of Wisconsin Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and private collections like The Gallery of Wisconsin Art.
 
Winifred Phillips died in 1963 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Sources:

Who's Who in Music and Art, Who Was Who in American Art, Exhibition records in MWA archives.

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