Creator Record
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Name |
Bongé, Dusti |
Notes |
Dusti Bongé (1903-1993) was considered Mississippi's first abstract expressionist painter and its first modernist artist. After her husband's death, Bongé sought solace in the studio where they had worked together and began to paint seriously, exploring surrealism and abstract expressionism. Born in Biloxi, MS, she graduated from Blue Mountain College, then studied acting at the Lyceum Arts Conservatory in Chicago. She lived in New York before returning to Mississippi, where her prolific art career spanned more than 55 years. Bongé's work has been exhibited at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Walter Anderson Museum of Art, the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art, the Mississippi Museum of Art, and the Mobile Museum of Art. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Mississippi Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Mobile Museum of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the Johnson Collection in SC, as well as a number of private collections throughout the U.S. |
Nationality |
American |
