Biography

Betsy Bauer's rich layered paintings of botanical images, flowers and landscapes have long been influenced by the scenery and music of Italy. She has traveled extensively throughout the country, collecting antique sheet music, old book pages and manuscripts. Inspiration for her work derives from the gracious contours of hand-lettered words and the rhythms of musical notation layered over the patterns of clouds and cypress trees in landscapes traversed by narrow dirt roads. Her work evokes Italian Opera, the spirit of the people, the warm, weathered colors of Tuscany, and the sense of layers of age in crumbling walls and Italian Old Master paintings.

Bauer's paintings and prints are held in museum, corporate and private collections around the world. Since 1985, she has had numerous solo shows in New York City and Santa Fe, NM. Her art hangs in the US Embassies in Sarajevo and La Paz, Bolivia, and in many collections, including the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC, American Express in NY and General Electric in CT.

Betsy Bauer was born in New Jersey, 1959 and now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Biography in Italian.

Solo Exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions

Awards/Commissions

Selected Bibliography

• Indyke, Dotty. "Of Place and Time", Southwest Art, April 2006
• Gordon, Bonnie. "Hand Prints Exhibition Opens at UNM-LA," LA Monitor: Kaleidoscope, 2005
• Indyke, Dotty. "Fine Art Etchings and Engravings", Collector's Guide, 2003
• Cline, Lynn. "Lush World," The New Mexican Pasatiempo, June 28, 2002
• Santa Fean Magazine, "Betsy Bauer: Acqua Toscana I," July 2002
• Cross, Guy. "Studio Visits," THE Magazine, July 2002
• Rodriquez, Francesca. "Seeing is Believing," Santa Fe Reporter, June 2002
• Indyke, Dottie.  "Aqua Toscana I,"  Albuquerque Journal,  April 26, 2002
• Fauntleroy, Gussie.  "Footnotes to a Love Story," The New Mexican Pasatiempo,  October 26, 2000
• Cline, Lynn. "Tuscan Sunlight Shines on Artist's Palette," The New Mexican Pasatiempo, June 2000
• United States Embassy, Art in Embassies Catalogue, La Paz, Bolivia, 2000
• Indyke, Dottie. "Intimate Connections," Southwest Art, February 2000
• Museum of Fine Arts, New Mexico 2000 Catalogue, October 1999-April 2000
• Kingsley, April. "Layered Memories," Betsy Bauer: Memoria Catalogue, October 1999
• National Museum of Women in the Arts, Women Artists in the Land of Enchantment Catalogue, June 1999
• The Santa Fean Magazine, Santa Fe Opera Collectors Edition, July 1998
• New American Paintings, The Open Studios Press, Volume 18, 1998
• Smith, Craig. "A Marriage of Color & Music," The New Mexican Pasatiempo, July 3, 1998
• Eastwood, Paula. "Openings & Exhibitions," Santa Fe Opera Collectors' Edition, The Santa Fean Magazine, July 1998
• Indyke, Dottie. "Romance and Form," The New Mexican Pasatiempo, June 27, 1997
• Patterson, Perrin. "Artists on Their Way Up," The Santa Fean Magazine, May 1997
• Bensley, Lis. "Awakening Botanica," National Academy of Sciences Exhibition Essay, April 1997
• Van Cleve, Emily. "Betsy Bauer Does Her Magic, With A Song In Her Heart ," The New Mexican Pasatiempo, June 28, 1996
• Fauntleroy, Gussie. "Botanical Images, Old Text and Opera Scores: Bauer Lured by Layers of Old," The New Mexican Pasatiempo, June 30, 1995
• Bensley, Lis. "Botanica: Visual Hymn to Nature's Fecundity," The New Mexican Pasatiempo, June 2, 1995
• Hansen, Rena. "The Political is Personal," Women Artist's News, June 1987
• Women's Art Registry of Minnesota Gallery, Women's Sensibilities: A National Exhibition Catalogue, October 1986

Selected Public Collections

• American Express, New York, NY
• Bear Stearns, Inc., New York, NY
• Bouley Restaurant, New York, NY
• Deloitte Touche, New York, NY
• First Union Bank, Charlotte, NC
• Four Seasons Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
• General Electric, Greenwich, CT
• Hallmark Fine Art Collection, Kansas City, MO
• Johnson Art Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
• Las Campanas Corporation, Santa Fe, NM
• Little Nell Hotel, Aspen, CO
• Merck Pharmaceutical, Philadelphia, PA
• Montgomery McCracken, Philadelphia, PA
• Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Santa Fe, NM
• National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
• New Jersey Power and Light Company, NJ
• Nissho Iway, New York, NY
• Pfizer, Inc., New York, NY
• Prego Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA
• Rohm and Hass Corporation, Philadelphia, PA
• Sibley Grand Oaks Hospital, Washington, D.C.
• Sloane Kettering Memorial Cancer Center/Lawrence S. Rockefeller Pavilion, New York, NY
• United States State Department, U.S. Embassy in Bolivia
• United States State Department, U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo
• University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
• USAA Insurance Company, Dallas, TX
• Vanguard Group, Valley Forge, PA

Gallery Representation

• Addison/Ripley Gallery, Washington, D.C.
• Hahn Ross Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• Sears/Peyton Gallery, New York City
• Weber/Winfield at Winfield Gallery, Carmel, CA

Education

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