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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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