Joyce Lair (1926-2004)

Joyce Lair was born in rural Minnesota. At the age of 18, Lair won an Ingersoll Prize to study art and trained in Europe and the Walker Art School in Minneapolis. The first time she showed her work was at the Women's International Exhibition in NYC. In addition to her own painting, Lair created an art education program she called, "Young Artists Studio."  Lair moved to California later in her career and showed at galleries in Carmel.  Her last solo exhibition was a retrospective at the Duluth Art Institute in 1991.