Emmy Lou Packard (1914-1998), Woodblock Print. Pencil signed lower right.

Overall Size: 5 1/2 x 19 1/2 in.

Sight Size: 10 1/4 x 15 in.

West Coast artist Emmy Lou Packard was born in California in 1914. As a child living with her family in Mexico City, she received regular art criticism and encouragement from Diego Rivera. In 1940, after studying fresco at the California School of Fine Arts, she was Rivera's assistant on his World's Fair mural in San Francisco. In addition to her work in fresco, she is known for her work in watercolor, oil, mosaic, laminated plastic, concrete and printmaking, both in linocuts and woodblocks. She has had one woman shows at the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Raymond and Raymond Gallery (S.F.), the Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, MA), Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, the Pushkin Museum (Moscow), and the March Gallery, Chicago. She has received numerous awards for her painting and print work. She designed and printed 300 woodcuts for the state rooms of the Matson Line ships SS Mariposa and SS Monterey, as well as mosaics and linoleum murals for the SS Lurline. Her architectural commissions have included a 6 x 20 foot mosaic mural at the Hillcrest Elementary School in San Francisco, a 4 x 85 foot concrete bas relief for the Student Center, University of California, Berkeley, a 16 x 76 foot mural for the Fresno (CA) Convention Center Theatre, as well as a 70 x 16 foot glazed brick mural for a public library in Pinole, California.

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