Joan Erbe is a Baltimore

Baltimore

Baltimore is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore...

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Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

 and sculptor. She is best known for using bright colors and has been called "The Grand Duchess of Baltimore Painters" (Rebecca Hoffberger quoted in Ned Oldham, "The Bird," Baltimore Magazine, December 2001, p. 120). She received her training at the Maryland Institute College of Art

Maryland Institute College of Art

Maryland Institute College of Art is an art and design college in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. It was founded in 1826 as the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, making it one of the first and oldest art colleges in the United States. In 2008, MICA was ranked #2 in the nation...

, where she was a student of Leonard Bahr

Leonard Bahr

Leonard Marion Bahr was a prolific painter of portraits and murals, an illustrator, as well as a highly regarded painting professor for 52 years at the Maryland Institute College of Art ....

 and Louis Bouché.

She has had over 60 individual art shows, at venues including:

The Baltimore Museum of Art

Baltimore Museum of Art

The Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, was founded in 1914. Built in the Roman Temple style, the Museum is home to an internationally renowned collection of 19th-century, modern, and contemporary art. Founded in 1914 with a single painting, the BMA today has 90,000 works...

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The Butler Institute of American Art

Butler Institute of American Art

The Butler Institute of American Art, located on Wick Avenue in Youngstown, Ohio, United States, was the first museum dedicated exclusively to American art. Established by local industrialist and philanthropist Joseph G. Butler, Jr., the museum has been operating pro bono since 1919...

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Goucher College

Goucher College

Goucher College is a private, co-educational, liberal arts college located in the northern Baltimore suburb of Towson in unincorporated Baltimore County, Maryland, on a 287 acre campus. The school has approximately 1,475 undergraduate students studying in 31 majors and six interdisciplinary...

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The Johns Hopkins University,
The Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.),
Philadelphia Art Alliance

Philadelphia Art Alliance

The Philadelphia Art Alliance is a multidisciplinary arts center located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood. It is the oldest multidisciplinary arts center in the United States for visual, literary and performing arts...

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Salpeter Gallery (New York City),
St. John's College (Annapolis, MD),
The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland

The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland

The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland is a contemporary art gallery on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park. Founded in 1955, the Gallery was initially housed in the Tawes Building before moving to a newly-constructed exhibition facility in the Arts-Sociology Building in...

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I.F. A. Gallery (Washington, DC).

Recent shows include: "Joan Erbe," NYE Gomez Gallery (Baltimore, Maryland), November 9-December 7, 1991; "Joan Erbe: Harpies, Humans and Others," NYE Gomez Gallery, March 20-April 17, 1993; and "Joan Erbe," Gomez Gallery, August 9-September 7, 1997.