1) Ida Kohlmeyer, born in New Orleans, Louisiana on November 3, 1912 to January 24, 1997 (aged 84), was an American painter and sculptor who lived and worked in Louisiana.
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2) She earned a BA in English at Newcomb College. After graduating, she married & went to Vera Cruz & Mexico City for their honeymoon. There, she became interested in South & Central America art.
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3) She returned to Newcomb (former women’s coordinate college of Tulane University) in 1950 & completed a MFA in painting in 1956. She later studied at the painting school of NY artist Hans Hofmann.
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4) She had her first exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art in 1957, & her first exhibition in New York City at the Ruth White Gallery in 1959. She completed several major commissions later in life.
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5) Inspired by her interest in South American art, she explored a distinctive vocabulary of hieroglyphs, shapes, & signs, all organized in a loose grid, that hovered among abstraction, writing & emblem.
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6) In 2004, Newcomb Art Gallery organized Systems of Color, an exhibit & accompanying book, dedicated to her. NOMA celebrated 100 years of her career in 2012 to 2013. In 2016, DAM included her biography.
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