| An apprentice in the studio of a noted painter starting at the age fifteen, Lorraine Vails solid traditional background in drawing and painting earned a full, four-year scholarship based on artistic merit. With a B.F.A. in Illustration from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA she then worked as a freelance illustrator and model maker primarily in New York and Philadelphia. With an exceedingly active, twenty plus-year history of public sculpture commissions, Vail's work can be found in a number of public and private collections in this country as well as overseas, where several distinguished hotels have installed her fountains and sculptures. She has been honored to have taught sculpture at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. With a number of solo and group exhibitions her work appears in a variety of venues from galleries and museums, to corporations and universities. Her sculptures have appeared in exhibits at Temple University, PA and are part of the permanent collections of the Blackhawk Automotive Museum in CA and the Berman Museum in PA. Three of Vail's public sculptures are listed as sites on the National Museum of Women in the Arts tour in the Washington, D.C. area. Five of Vail's bronzes are included in the Vatican Library's permanent art collection in Rome.
An apprentice in the studio of a noted painter starting at the age fifteen, Lorraine Vails solid traditional background in drawing and painting earned a full, four-year scholarship based on artistic merit. With a B.F.A. in Illustration from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA she then worked as a freelance illustrator and model maker primarily in New York and Philadelphia.
With an exceedingly active, twenty plus-year history of public sculpture commissions, Vail's work can be found in a number of public and private collections in this country as well as overseas, where several distinguished hotels have installed her fountains and sculptures.
She has been honored to have taught sculpture at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. With a number of solo and group exhibitions her work appears in a variety of venues from galleries and museums, to corporations and universities. Her sculptures have appeared in exhibits at Temple University, PA and are part of the permanent collections of the Blackhawk Automotive Museum in CA and the Berman Museum in PA. Three of Vail's public sculptures are listed as sites on the National Museum of Women in the Arts tour in the Washington, D.C. area. Five of Vail's bronzes are included in the Vatican Library's permanent art collection in Rome. |
