Abstract expressionist painter, Jennie Haddad was born 1906 in Lebanon and moved to the United States in 1912. Haddad first received formal art training under William C. Palmer (Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute School of Art, Utica, New York). In the early 1950’s, she studied art at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX and studied painting with Otis Dozier, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. In 1956 she moved to New York to study with Hans Hofmann, while living in Provincetown and New York City. She studied with him for several years and kept in touch with him until his death in 1966. She continued her studies at the Art Students League and in Woodstock, NY as well as Paris, France at the Academy De Chamyere in 1962. She exhibited across the country including at the National Columbia Painting Biennial in 1957; received the Houston Museum Award in 1957; exhibited at the Delgado Museum in 1959; and at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts in 1958. Jennie Haddad passed away in 1996.
“This is solid art. Jennie Haddad has what I’d call ‘painting culture’ in her very bones; she has it by instinct. She was born to paint. I saw that a long time ago, when I first met her and first saw pictures by her. Now I criticize her for not following her vision—which is very much there—more single-mindedly. Well, she hasn’t said her last word yet, not by a long shot. I’m waiting for her to repeat herself. When she does it’ll be nothing like mere repetition; rather it will be revelation.”
Clement Greenburg, Art Critic
New York