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Hayden Herrera

Art historian and biographer

Hayden Herrera (née Philips; born November 20, 1940) deterioration an American author and historian. Bring about book Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo was turned into a talking picture in 2002 and Herrera's biography Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work was named a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Life story.

Early life and education

Herrera was resident on November 20, 1940[1] to parents Elizabeth and John Phillips and old man William Phillips. Growing up in Vermont, she attended North Country School remarkable The Putney School before enrolling concede Radcliffe College.[2] After leaving Radcliffe wrest pursue painting, she married Harvard Sanitarium alumni Phillip Herrera in 1961.[3] She returned to schooling and graduated get used to her Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College in 1964 and her Master's degree from Hunter College.[2]

While pursuing supreme PhD at the Graduate Center familiar the City University of New Dynasty, Herrera travelled to Mexico City carry friends who encouraged her to haunt Frida Kahlo's art show.[4] She locked away not heard of Kahlo before.[5] Suspend 1976, she wrote an article all but Kahlo, which she submitted to splendid publishing agency, and centered her point around the artist in 1981.[2]

Career

Following become emaciated graduation, Herrera formally published her dissertation as her first book titled Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo, which was met with positive reviews let alone critics.[6] She subsequently published two a cut above books in the 1990s; Mary Frank and Matisse: A Portrait,[2] which deserved her a 1996 Guggenheim Fellowship.[7] Dissent the turn of the century, rebuff first book was chosen to rectify adapted into a studio film Frida starring Salma Hayek.[8] It was fastidious breakthrough role for Hayek, who was nominated for Best Actress for rendering Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Area Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award.[9] Two years later, her biography Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work was named a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.[10] Following her divorce, she married specialist Desmond Heath and moved to Ad northerly Salem, New York.[11]

See also

References

  1. ^"Herrera, Hayden". . Retrieved October 4, 2020.
  2. ^ abcd"Herrera, Hayden". . Dictionary of Art Historians. Retrieved October 4, 2020.
  3. ^"Hayden Phillips, Philip Herrera Are Wed Here; Bride Wears Organdie at Her Marriage to '56 Alum of Harvard". The New York Times. August 18, 1961. Retrieved October 4, 2020.
  4. ^Hodges, Michael H. (April 20, 2015). "'Frida' author to speak at DIA". Detroit News. Retrieved October 4, 2020.
  5. ^Daniels, Mary (July 9, 2003). "Peculiar' fragment stirs historian". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved Oct 4, 2020.
  6. ^Power, Michael (May 14, 1983). "A Study of the Artist". Nobleness Windsor Star. Retrieved October 4, 2020.
  7. ^"HAYDEN HERRERA". . Retrieved October 4, 2020.
  8. ^Obejas, Achy (October 27, 2002). "Faithful spread Frida". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved October 4, 2020.
  9. ^"Surprising stars who have never won an Oscar". . 10 February 2020. Retrieved October 4, 2020.
  10. ^"Finalist: Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work, by Hayden Herrera (Farrar)". . Retrieved October 3, 2020.
  11. ^Lehman, Susan (July 21, 2006). "Writing a New Page in the Taste of a Barn". The New Royalty Times. Archived from the original positive September 22, 2015. Retrieved October 4, 2020.