Loren MacIver

Work MacIver's work ranges from naturalistic to abstract, but consistent throughout her work is the skill with which she depicts light.

She first began showing her work in group exhibitions in a few galleries and art associations from 1933 to 1937. She worked for the Federal Art Project/Works Progress Administration (FAP/WPA). In her later years by the 1970s, she had begun reinterpreting previous themes and her work was considered no longer innovative and the Pierre Matisse Gallery took her work down. After her husband's death in 1975, she painted little but did continue showing several of her pieces in art galleries. Then in 1998, the Tibor de Nagy Gallery hung its first exhibition of her work only months before her death.

MacIver is the first woman represented in the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection, one of her works having been acquired by director Alfred H. Barr, Jr. in 1935.

MacIver's works are in the permanent collections of a number of institutions, including the Addison Gallery of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Baltimore Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Phillips Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Yale University Art Gallery.