Ida Lorentzen

She was awarded the Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Purchase Fund from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1995 for her Room With a View, (1993) .

[2] She married Erik Nilsen-Moe in 1974, Ida Lorentzen has painted several portrait commissions, Queen Sonja of Norway (1994) and the Coronation Ceremony in the Nidaros Cathedral in 1991.

[4] Her work is mainly centered around pastels and paintings of interior space, often hinting at a melancholic and sentimental mood.

Her work is highly realistic, and implements strong use of light, shadow and composition to portray an interior space.

Lorentzen says this about her own work: "When I have to say something about my paintings, I always think back to my student days and quote Philip Guston, who was then teaching at Boston University College of Fine Art: We are image-makers, and image-ridden, after many years I see how my own images do follow me.".