Grace Greenwood Ames (born Brooklyn, January 15, 1905 – died New York City, July 21, 1979)[1][2] was an American artist and social realism muralist. She worked in Mexico on murals alongside historical artists.
When she married, rather than dropping her maiden name she added her husband's surname Ames on to the end of her name, and called herself variously 'Grace Greenwood', 'Grace Ames', or (as she has become known) 'Grace Greenwood Ames'.[3] Later in life she went by 'Grace Crampton', her second husband's last name.[4][5]
Grace Greenwood was born in Brooklyn, New York, on January 15, 1905, to Walter Greenwood and Kathryn Boyland.[1][2] Her father was a painter and her younger sister Marion Greenwood was also an artist.[2][6] Ames studied at Art Students League of New York, alongside her sister.[7] She went on to study art in Italy in the 1920s.[8] In 1929, both of the Greenwood sisters participated in the famed Bohemian event, the Maverick Festival (1915–1931) at the Maverick Art Colony in Woodstock, New York.[9]
Later in life Ames eventually decided not to follow an art career,[12] instead she moved to Woodstock, New York and took her second husband's last name, going by the name Grace Crampton.[4][5]
^ abcGuillermo, Rivas (June 1936). "The murals of Grace Greenwood". Mexican Life. 6. Mexico City, Mexico: 28–30. Archived from the original on 2019-06-22. Retrieved 2020-01-09 – via International Center of the Arts of the Americas (ICAA), Museum of the Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH).
^ abOles, James (2004). "Chapter 7 - The Mexican Murals of Marion and Grace Greenwood". Out of Context: American Artists Abroad. Issue 8 of Contributions to the study of art and architecture. Greenwood Publishing. pp. 113–134. ISBN9780313316494.
