Molly Upton

Quick Facts

Full Name	Molly Upton
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Sep 30, 1953(1953-09-30)
Age	71
Date Of Death	March 30, 1977, San Francisco, CA
Birthplace	Pittsfield
Country	United States
Birth City	Massachusetts
Horoscope	Libra

Molly Upton Biography

Molly Upton is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on September 30, 1953 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States.

Martha Neill Upton (September 30, 1953, Pittsfield, Massachusetts – March 30, 1977, San Francisco, California) was a watercolorist, sculptor and studio quilt artist. Her quilted tapestries helped quilts become seen as fine art, rather than craft work, during the early 1970s. Her quilts were shown in the first major museum exhibition of non-traditional quilts, The New American Quilt at New York’s Museum of Arts and Design, then called the Museum of Contemporary Craft, in 1976.

Upton and Hoffman ignored the “great American quilt revival” trends in quilt making that had begun in the 1960s. Instead of replicating traditional quilting patterns, Upton and Hoffman, along with a handful of their contemporaries, began to synthesize a fine arts perspective with the quilt format. Their abstract “Quilted Tapestries” were original designs. They invited comparison of their work with contemporary art, and they asked art world prices for it. Their work coupled high standards of aesthetic quality with an uncompromising vision of its own value and importance.

Molly Upton Net Worth

Molly Upton is one of the richest Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Molly Upton 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Upton was born on September 30, 1953, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Her parents, James Gordon Upton and Barbara Allen Upton, moved to Darien, Connecticut in 1954. Her father was a graduate of the Princeton University in the Class of 1944 and a veteran of the United States Army Air Force as a C-47 pilot. After leaving the Air Force, he established a career in advertising and marketing in New York. Upton’s mother graduated from Vassar College in 1943 with a degree in political science.

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Upton produced over 27 tapestries between 1974 and 1976. She moved to San Francisco between 1975 and 1976. In March 1977, she committed suicide by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge.

Facts & Trivia

Nadiia Ranked on the list of most popular Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Molly Upton celebrates birthday on September 30 of every year.

In December 1975, Arts Magazine published a full page announcement for the “Quilted Tapestries of Susan Hoffman and Molly Upton” exhibit opening at the Kornblee Gallery in New York City, November 25 – December 13, 1975 and included photographs of Upton’s black and white Pine Winter and Hoffman’s black and white Hourglass Infinity. They were “the first quiltmakers to be represented by a New York art gallery, and their quilts astonished many who saw them”.