Disciplines: Visual Arts

Edith Bozyan

Disciplines: Visual Arts
Region: Newport, RI
Residencies: 1940, 1941, 1942
Edith Bozyan (1907-1993) was an American painter. Born in Newport, RI, Edith Bozyan was awarded a scholarship to the Art Association in 1917. Her teachers included Emma Greenlaw, Helena and Louisa Sturtevant, and John Howard Benson. Bozyan went on to graduate from Smith College and then left for New York, where she studied at the Art Students League with Thomas Hart Benton (recalled by her as a "male chauvinist pig"). Her fellow student was Jackson Pollock, from whom she rented a studio. Bozyan remained in New York teaching art in the public schools, but regularly exhibited her work in the Art Association annuals beginning in 1930. In 1950, Bozyan returned to Newport to run her father's antiques business, now the DeBlois Gallery, which she helped to found. She continued her love for teaching at the Art Association beginning in the 1960s.