Louisa Matthíasdóttir was born in 1917 in Reykjavik Iceland. As a young woman Matthíasdóttir studied art in Copenhagen and spent a year studying with Marcel Gromaire in Paris. In 1942 she moved to New York to continue her studies under the tutelage of Hans Hoffman…
Had her first solo show in 1948 at the Jane Street Gallery, New York’s first artists’ cooperative and for many years she had regular exhibitions at the Robert Schoelkopf Gallery on Madison Avenue…