Grace Knowlton

Knowlton was born Grace Daniels Farrar in 1932 in Buffalo, New York to Esther Norton Farrar, a homemaker and Frank Neff Farrar who owned a music store. Knowlton married Winthrop Knowlton. Their son Win Knowlton is a sculptor. ==Education==

Knowlton received a B.A. degree in art from Smith College in 1954. She also studied privately with the artist Kenneth Noland. In 1981 she received a master's degree in art from the Columbia University Teacher's College. ==Work==

Knowlton was known for her spherical sculptures, sometimes exhibited in groupings. In general, these were made from steel-reinforced concrete, and fiberglass. She also produced prints, photographs and drawings. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Union Art Center, Pratt Institute, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Dallas Museum of Modern Art, among many other venues. Her work received reviews in the New York Times, Architectural Digest, Art in America, Sculpture Magazine, Arts Magazine and Vogue. The art critic, Roberta Smith wrote that her work was "Cubist in effect" and that it brought a "new complexity to Minimalist art". ==Collections==

Her work is represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Storm King Art Center, Yale University Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art, the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art. ==References==