Andrée Rexroth

Andrée Rexroth (1902 – 17 October 1940) was an American artist.

Andrée Schafer Rexroth
self portrait
Born	1902 (1902) Chicago, Illinois
Died	September 17, 1940(1940-09-17) (aged 37–38)[1] San Francisco, California

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.^[2] In the 1930s she took part in the Works Progress Administration initiative to employ artists during the Great Depression.^[3] In 1936 she was part of the group exhibition New Horizons in American Art at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.^[4] She died from complications of an epileptic seizure in 1940, aged 38.^[2] Following her death, Kenneth Rexroth wrote five poems in her memory.^[5]

Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum^[1] and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,^[6]