Esphyr slobodkina biography of william shakespeare

Over the course of her year career, Esphyr Slobodkina was a pioneer of early American abstraction and a significant participant in the avant-garde activities and exhibitions of the s & 40s, which helped achieve recognition for abstract art in the United States.

An early forerunner of hard-edged abstraction, Slobodkina’s work was championed by art critic Clement Greenberg and was the subject of a one-person exhibition at America’s first modern art museum, A.E. Gallatin’s Museum of Living Art Her work was also shown at Peggy Guggenheim’s gallery, Art of This Century, in and at the Whitney Museum of American Art in

In , Slobodkina was one of three women included in the important exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, “Eight by Eight: Abstract Painting Since ”

Displaced by the Russian Revolution, Slobodkina immigrated to the United States in and immersed herself in the New York art world, co-founding the legendary American Abstract Artist