Background
Cornelius, Marty was born on September 18, 1913 in Pittsburgh. Daughter of James Alvin and Ethel (Lewis) Cornelius.
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Marty Cornelius, American artist, art therapist. Recipient prizes Martin Leisser School Design, Pittsburgh, 1946, 48, Butler Institute, Youngstown, Ohio, 1948, Associate Artists Pittsburgh Exhibit, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1953, Garden Club Allegheny Company, 1947, 55, also numerous local show prizes and awards. Has served several juries and panels. Registered Medical Rehabilitation Therapists.
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1935. Student Pittsburgh Playhouse, 1938-1939. Student art therapy orientation, Veterans Administration Hospital., Menningers, Topeka, 1954.
Studied art with Reginald Marsh, New York City, Samuel Rosenberg, Pittsburgh.
Career
Formerly writer and designer Aluminum Company American. Later with Jos. Horne Company, Pittsburgh. Exhibited annually, 1937-1972.
Professional artist, therapist teacher, head diagnostic art clinic Veterans Administration Hospital.-Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Pittsburgh.
Demonstrator art of painting in oil through Horne’s advertising department, 1955, 56. Professor freshman drawing, painting and design department Fine Arts College, Carnegie Institute Technology, 1959-1960.
Employed by United States Government, 1954-1972. On television series WQED educational television stations, Pittsburgh, 1962.
Exhibited Carnegie Institute Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Annual, summers 1959-1973, Westmoreland County Museum Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 1964, Painting in the United States exhibit Carnegie Institute, 1947-1950, Ogunquit Art Center (annual), Ohio University, Audubon Artists, New York City, annual show Associate Artists of Pittsburgh, from 1937 (awarded prizes 1939, 46, 47, 48, 49, 53, 55), Contemporary American Painting Whitney Museum of Art, New York City, National Biennial Contemporary Painters, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, 1941, 47, Palace of Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1949.
Represented in permanent collections 100 Friends Pittsburgh Art, 100 Friends Latrobe Art, New Bethlehem High School, private collections, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Danville, Virginia, Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh, Museum Modern Art, New York City. Regional painting, sculpture exhibit Westmoreland County Museum Art, Greenburg, Pennsylvania, 1963, 65, 67. Associate Artists Pittsburgh, 1938-1979.
3 Rivers Arts Festivals through Carnegie Institute and Museum.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow International Institute Arts and Letters. Member Pittsburgh Teachers Association, Associate Artists Pittsburgh (director 1939-1940), Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, Kappa Kappa Gamma (award for individual alumnae achievement in art 1952). Free lance professional artist, painter, illustrator, art therapist.
Connections
Married J.F. Fitzpatrick (divorced).
