Elizabeth "Betty" Osbourne

Elizabeth Osbourne was a student from 1944 to 1945. She took Introductory Weaving with Marilyn Bauer and Anni Albers, Fall 1944 and Winter 1945. She was a student officer and worked on the college bulletins. Married Joseph Wolfe Richards.

Relationships

Sister: Fellow BMC student, Ginger Osbourne

Asheville Art Museum Collection

Writings about BJ can be seen in digitized college bulletins on Asheville Art Museum's collection website: collection.ashevilleart.org. They can be found by searching these accession numbers:

2017.40.218 November 1946 bulletin,

“Ginger Osbourne is now in Paris where she is writing feature stories for the Toronto Star. Her sister, B.J. Osbourne, is assistant art director for the New York advertising agency, Spaded, Inc. Her duties include the arrangements of layouts for ads and supervision of photography. In her spare time B.J. does some modeling. She has appeared in recent issues of Mademoiselle and Harper’s Junior Bazaar.”