Gottfried MarthaJoy

American landscape painter with an extensive artistic production, having created around 700 paintings during the period 1969–1979. Much of her life was devoted to teaching in her own studio. She presented her first individual exhibition in 1974 at a gallery in the Mexican-American Institute of Cultural Relations in Mexico City. In the ensuing years, she held many other exhibitions, including at Instituto Anglo-Americano de Cultura; Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros (1983); Palacio de Minería("Palace of Mining") (1992) and Museo de la Estampa ("Museum of Graphic Arts") (1994). She also held Art and Culture exhibitions at the México City and Cancún, Quintana Roo Airports. In 2004, she exhibited at Palacio de la Escuela de Medicina ("Medical School Palace") and in 2007 at the Club de Industriales("Industrial Club"), in Polanco. Besides her numerous exhibitions in and out of México, many of her paintings have been auctioned around the world. After a long fight with chronic kidney disease, she died of heart failure on 10 January 2014 at the age of 88 in Mexico City. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less