Elizabeth McFadden (1912-1986) was an American artist known best for her delicate paper and fabric collages. Born in Belmar, New Jersey, McFadden was the daughter of celebrated Abstract Expressionist collage artist, Anne Ryan, and ultimately published a memoir, Anne Ryan: A Personal Remembrance. She also donated many of Ryan’s collages to prestigious museum collections around the country, including The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Like her mother, McFadden also spent a lifetime exploring the medium of collage, while for several decades maintaining a day job as a medical and science reporter for the Newark Evening News.

In 1956, 1958, and 1960, McFadden would have solo exhibitions at the famed Betty Parsons Gallery in New York, which at the time represented art world luminaries like Ellsworth Kelly and Ad Reinhardt. Hanging alongside works by her mother, McFadden’s collages were later exhibited in the landmark 1961 show, “The Art of Assemblage,” curated by William Seitz for The Museum of Modern Art.

More recently in 2015, her work was shown in exhibition “The Precarious,” at The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, hanging alongside works by Cy Twombly, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Rauchenberg, and Anne Ryan. McFadden’s work can be found in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Menil Collection in Houston, TX, among others.