Betty Warren (January 6, 1920 – November 8, 1993) was a portrait artist, born in New York City.
Betty Warren, known for her bright colorist portraits was one of the top paid female portraitists of the 20th century. Her last formal portrait was of Governor Hugh Carey for the State of New York in 1991. Warren was the daughter of Illustrator Jack A. Warren, the co-creator of Pecos Bill. Betty Warren was the youngest woman in US History to be given a solo exhibit at a major US Museum (Berkshire Museum 1940). She was twenty years old.
During her life she was married to Jacob Herzog.
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| Name | Warren, Betty |
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| Short description | American artist |
| Date of birth | January 6, 1920 |
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| Date of death | November 8, 1993 |
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“He could jazz up the map-reading class by having a full-size color photograph of Betty Grable in a bathing suit, with a co- ordinate grid system laid over it. The instructor could point to different parts of her and say, “Give me the co-ordinates.”... The Major could see every unit in the Army using his idea.... Hot dog!”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“In Florida consider the flamingo,
Its color passion but its neck a question.”
—Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)