Joan Erbe

Joan Erbe Udel (1926 – August 21, 2014) was a Baltimore painter and sculptor. She was best known for using bright colors and was called "The Grand Duchess of Baltimore Painters" by Ned Oldham as quoted by Rebecca Hoffberger in Baltimore Magazine. She received her training at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she was a student of Leonard Bahr and Louis Bouché.

Early life Joan Erbe was born in Baltimore in 1926. She was the daughter of Harry Erbe, a wholesale coffee salesman and Bertha Metcalf Erbe, who was a secretary at the Enoch Pratt Free Library's children's department.

Exhibitions

Erbe's work has been the subject of more than sixty solo exhibitions including at:

The Baltimore Museum of Art The Butler Institute of American Art Goucher College Johns Hopkins University The Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.) Philadelphia Art Alliance Salpeter Gallery (New York City) St. John's College (Annapolis, MD) The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland I.F. A. Gallery (Washington, DC)