Biography

Elizabeth Carney was born in Montana and educated at the Minneapolis School of Art. She traveled to Spain in the summer of 1936, and later studied at the Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts with an emphasis on fresco. She won prizes for her lithographs in the Minnesota State Fair Arts Competitions of 1939 and 1940. Two of her 1939 works, "Italian Fishermen" and "Lonely Stations," were also included in the Seventh International Exhibit of Lithography and Wood Engraving at the Art Institute of Chicago. She married William Pope, an instructor in commercial photography at the School of Art.

Critical Analysis

Following her youthful successes, Carney had a career that spanned several decades. Her name shows up in art magazines and catalogs in the 1960s and 1970s. And examples of her work remain available at a number of galleries.

Murals

• Chisholm, Minnesota - Post Office: Discovery of Ore

References

1. Art by Betty Carney Pope (Charles Rosenberg).
2. Betty Carney Pope (Art Forum).
3. Mazatlan Beach (Kevin's Art Collection).
4. Robert L. Crump, Minnesota Prints and Printmakers, 1900-1945. Minnesota Historical Society Press , Saint Paul, MN (2009).
5. Once at Mia: Buddha arrives—a face of "benign contemplation" (Minneapolis Institute of Art).