Fri, Apr. 18, 2008
Esteemed Phila. artist Andrade dies
By Edward J. Sozanski
For The Inquirer
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"Color Motion 4-64," part of the Art Museum collection, exemplifies
Andrade's dizzying geometrics.
Edna Andrade, 91, one of Philadelphia's most accomplished and beloved
artists, died yesterday at her home in Center City.
A resident of the city since 1946, Ms. Andrade was highly esteemed
throughout the art community not only for the exemplary quality of her
art - she was a leading practitioner of Optical Art - but also for her
generosity to other artists, particularly as a teacher.
Striking testimony to this came in the fall of 1993, when more than
500 people turned out on a rainy night for the opening of her
retrospective exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Ms. Andrade taught for more than 30 years at what is now University of
the Arts. In 1996, when the College Art Association honored her for
distinguished teaching, UA professor Kenneth Hiebert lauded her as
"the quintessential amalgam of all that makes for great art and great
teaching," and said, "Her distinguished career as an influential
artist and teacher for over 50 years is legendary in the city."
As a painter, Ms. Andrade worked through several stylistic phases
after graduating from the Pennsylvania Academy and University of
Pennsylvania joint fine arts program in 1937. Initially a realist, she
gradually moved in the late 1950s into a strain of geometrical
abstraction that generated dazzling, and sometimes dizzying, optical
effects.
It's for these precise, meticulously crafted images, exhibited at
Penn's Institute of Contemporary Art in 2003, that she is best known.
Other artists extrapolated from geometry, but Ms. Andrade's approach
is distinctive for its gentle, luminous palette and lush, poetic
lyricism. One doesn't expect to find such qualities, and even
occasional whimsicality, in Euclidean rigor.
Ms. Andrade, who continued to paint and draw until her death, moved
away from abstraction about 1993 and returned to realism, expressed
through highly detailed drawings of coastal rocks found near her
longtime summer residence in Maine.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art owns 25 of her paintings, drawings and
prints. One painting, Color Motion 4-64, is included in the exhibition
"Pop Art and Its Affinities," on view through June. Another, Mariposa,
will be hung tomorrow in the corridor gallery outside the auditorium
as a memorial.
Besides the Art Museum and the academy, Ms. Andrade's art is also
owned by the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo; the Addison Gallery of
American Art in Andover, Mass.; the Yale University Art Gallery; and
the Baltimore Museum of Art. She exhibited her work periodically at
Locks Gallery here from the gallery's founding in 1968 until early
last year.
Art Museum director Anne d'Harnoncourt described Ms. Andrade as "a
thoughtful artist whose taste was always interesting, and whose
support and encouragement of younger artists was absolutely terrific.
I always thought of her not only as a remarkable painter and a
wonderful teacher but as a real-life force in the city."
"She was a great lady and a generous spirit, and an inspiration to us
all. We will miss her very, very much."
Philadelphia painter Diane Burko, a longtime friend, called Ms.
Andrade "the most incredible human being, the quintessential artist,
and role model. Her dedication to her art, her dedication to speaking
her mind were both inspirational. She was my artist mother."
Friends attributed Ms. Andrade's graciousness to her upbringing in
Tidewater Virginia. She was born in Portsmouth on Jan. 25, 1917, as
Edna Davis Wright, daughter of a lumberman-engineer and a
schoolteacher.
She began her career as an art teacher in Norfolk public schools and
later at Tulane University. In 1941, she married architect Preston
Andrade, who introduced her to the fields of architecture and design.
During World War II, she was involved in a number of design projects,
including creating posters and pamphlets for the war bond division of
the Treasury Department.
Ms. Andrade moved to Philadelphia in 1946. During the late 1940s and
'50s, she did freelance drafting for architects; plans for
Philadelphia's airport were one such job. She had her first major solo
exhibition at the Philadelphia Art Alliance in 1954, and was hired at
Philadelphia College of Art in 1958.
Divorced from Andrade in 1960, she recalled in an interview last year
that the divorce allowed her artistic career to flourish. "I didn't
really take charge of my career until middle age."
She is survived by a brother, Thomas Judson Wright 3d of Portsmouth,
and a sister, Mary Wright Thrasher of Norfolk, Va. Funeral
arrangements are incomplete.
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