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Centennial Retrospective

On  the occasion of Esphyr Slobodkina’s 100th birthday, the Slobodkina Foundation is presenting a retrospective entitled Esphyr Slobodkina: Rediscovering a Pioneer of American Abstraction. This landmark exhibition will be the most comprehensive ever undertaken on Slobodkina with 75 works, and the first to travel beyond the East Coast.

 

Curated by Sandra Kraskin, Director of the Sidney Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College, the exhibition will span Slobodkina’s entire career, ranging from her earliest artistic efforts of the 1920s to her final sculpture finished at age 93. Highlights include four WPA mural sketches, celebrated abstractions from the 1930s-1950s and two original 1939 Caps for Sale illustrations.

 

Works will be on loan from the Slobodkina Foundation, Heckscher Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Grey Art Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and New Britain Museum of American Art.

 

A 120-page, full-color commemorative book is being produced in conjunction with the exhibition. This publication celebrates Slobodkina's lifetime achievements with critical essays, color reproductions of her art and illustrations, and a pictorial biography with excerpts from Slobodkina's autobiography.

 

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