Jackie Felix (1929-2009 )

In many of her early paintings, Felix used strategies reminiscent of early 20th-century German Expressionists such as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde, Max Beckmann and Otto Dix. She used a similar savagery in brash brushstrokes, discordant colors, and satirical or unsavory human subjects. Her Wild Woman Series (1983-84) of monolithic nudes, she said, gave her the courage to paint any subject freely, uninhibited.-NW