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{{short description|American artist}}
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| name = Andrée Schafer Rexroth
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| birth_place = [[Chicago, Illinois]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1940|09|17|1902}}<ref name="SAAM" />
| death_place = [[San Francisco, California]]
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'''Andrée Rexroth''' (1902 – 17 October 1940) was an American artist.

In the 1920s she married the poet [[Kenneth Rexroth]]. In 1927 the couple hitchhiked and camped their way from Indiana to San Francisco, California, where they settled.<ref name="IndianaHistory">{{cite web |last1=Simins |first1=Jill Weiss |title=Kenneth Rexroth: Poet, Pacifist, Radical, and Reluctant Father of the Beat Generation |url=https://blog.history.in.gov/kenneth-rexroth-poet-pacifist-radical-and-reluctant-father-of-the-beat-generation/ |website=The Indiana History Blog |date=16 May 2017}}</ref> In the 1930s she took part in the [[Works Progress Administration]] initiative to employ artists during the [[Great Depression]].<ref name="WPA">{{cite web |title=WPA Artwork in Non-federal Repositories |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=983gOH7hi_gC&dq=%22andree+rexroth%22&pg=PA91 |publisher=U.S. General Services Administration, Public Building Service, Cultural and Environmental Affairs Division, Fine Arts program |language=en |date=1996}}</ref> In 1936 she was part of the group exhibition ''New Horizons in American Art'' at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.<ref name="MoMA">{{cite web |title=Andrée Rexroth on MOMA Exhibition Spelunker |url=https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2016/spelunker/constituents/1144/ |website=www.moma.org}}</ref> She died from complications of an epileptic seizure in 1940, aged 38.<ref name="IndianaHistory" /> Following her death, Kenneth Rexroth wrote five poems in her memory.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rexroth |first1=Kenneth |title=In the Sierra: Mountain Writings |date=10 April 2012 |publisher=New Directions Publishing |isbn=978-0-8112-1902-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KC1nAgAAQBAJ&q=%22andree+rexroth%22+epilepsy&pg=PA198 |language=en}}</ref>

Her work is included in the collections of the [[Smithsonian American Art Museum]]<ref name="SAAM">{{cite web |title=Andree Rexroth {{!}} Smithsonian American Art Museum |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/andree-rexroth-4012 |website=americanart.si.edu}}</ref> and the [[Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco]],<ref name="FAMSF">{{cite web |title=Andrée Schafer Rexroth |url=https://art.famsf.org/andr%C3%A9e-schafer-rexroth |website=FAMSF Search the Collections |language=en |date=21 September 2018}}</ref>

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[[Category:Painters from Illinois]]
[[Category:Neurological disease deaths in California]]
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[[Category:Federal Art Project artists]]
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