Pastel Bathtub, 1981
Charcoal and Pastel, 22" x 30"
Born in 1947, Madelaine Shellaby received a B.A. from Scripps College, Claremont, California, in 1966 and an M.A. in painting from the University of California at Berkeley in 1976. Shellaby's work has been exhibited at museums and art centers throughout the United States, including the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, the Hanson Gallery, New Orleans, and the University of California, Davis. She has been a guest lecturer and artist at the University of California at Berkeley and the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland. She begins her drawings with photographic images, which she then transfers to paper by means of a photo-emulsion process and works with graphite and pastel. Shellaby's work focuses on construction sites and architectural details of interior spaces.
*Excerpted from Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc.