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2008 Centennial Retrospective
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Current and Past
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January 10 - March 22, 2009
"Rediscovering Slobodkina: A Pioneer of American Abstraction"
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
Pictures from the
Exhibition
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January 10 - March 22, 2009
"Rediscovering Slobodkina: A Pioneer of American Abstraction"
Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
Pictures from the
Exhibition
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September 8 -
November 22, 2008
"Ilya Bolotowsky and Esphyr Slobodkina: Advocates of Abstract Art"
Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University.
Learn more.
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September 2 -
September 27, 2008
"American
Abstract Artists: Tribute to Esphyr Slobodkina"
An exhibition honoring Esphyr Slobodkina's 100th birthday is opening
at the Painting Center in New York City.
Read the press release.
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July 13 - October 28,
2007
"Michael and Marylin
Gould Collection of American Modern Art (1918-1949)"
New Britain Museum of
Art, Connecticut
Spanning 31 years of American
modernism, this exhibition contains some 50 works on paper from the
Michael and Marilyn Gould Collection. Major artists represented in
the Gould Collection include Ilya Bolotowsky, Esphyr Slobodkina,
Balcomb Greene, Emil Bisttram, James Daugherty, Jan Matulka,
Burgoyne Diller, Werner Drewes, Charlotte Park, Irene Rice Pereira,
John von Wicht, John Sennhauser, Lawrence Blazey, and Steve Wheeler.
This exhibition, which will be on view from July 13-Oct. 28, 2007,
focuses on significant movements of this genre such as Abstraction,
Precisionism, and early Abstract Expressionism.
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October 2006 - April
2008
“Esphyr Slobodkina, A Retrospective:
Art and Arts"
Slobodkina House Museum, Glen Head, NY
This exhibition offers a chronological
look at Esphyr's art on two floors of the Slobodkina House Museum.
Beginning with some of Esphyr's early school drawings and
advertisement illustrations, the show follows her development and
experimentation in a variety of media. The 175 works are hung salon
style. The show will run through April 2008.
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2006
“Art
in Embassies Program"
Displayed in 180 U.S. embassy
residences and diplomatic missions worldwide.
Artwork on loan: Black Crosses (1982), oil on canvas on masonite, 13
˝” x 8.”
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April 15 - May 31, 2005
“Evolution in Abstraction:
Antecedents and Descendents”
D. Wigmore Fine Art,
New York
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October 1 - 30, 2004
“Esphyr
Slobodkina: Journey Into Abstraction”
Kraushaar Galleries, New York
“Journey Into
Abstraction” features works from 1937 to 1950, small gouaches, two
WPA mural studies and two major, rarely seen paintings, The
Witching Hour (1949) and Turboprop Skyshark (1950) . . .
Read more.
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June 5 - July 13, 2004
“Ruth Eckstein /
Esphyr Slobodkina: Two Friends”
Great Neck Arts Center, New York
The exhibition of the works of Ruth Eckstein and Esphyr Slobodkina
opened Saturday at the Great Neck Center for the Arts (GNAC) to a
small but animated group of art enthusiasts . . .
Read more.
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March 3 - April 12, 2003
"Esphyr Slobodkina: Abstractions
1908-2002"
Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island
University, Brookville, NY
"The
exhibition will explore the role this female artist played in the
New York Abstract Art movement. From her time at the National
Academy of Design to her influential role in the founding of the
American Abstract Artists, a group that has had continuous meetings,
publications and exhibitions from 1937 to the present, Slobodkina
was influential in the development of an abstract style that was
truly American . . .
Read more.
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February 16 - March 23, 2002
“Esphyr Slobodkina:
Diversity”
Kraushaar Galleries, New York
"Esphyr Slobodkina, born in Siberia 93 years
ago, is best known as a painter and a
founding member of American Abstract
Artists, a group formed in 1936 to promote
the understanding of abstract art. Her
paintings and collages of interlocking
geometric forms are considered her signature
works. But the multitalented Ms. Slobodkina
has other strings to her bow . . .
Download the complete
New York Times review.
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January 16 - March 29, 1992
"The Life and Art of Esphyr Slobodkina"
Tisch Gallery, Tufts University and
Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College (November 5 - December 15,
1992)
"One of the most fascinating artists to emerge
in the 1992-93 was Esphyr Slobodkina; her works were shown in Boston
at the Tufts University Art Gallery, which organized the exhibition,
and in New York at the Sidney Mishkin Gallery of Baruch College . .
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Download the complete Woman's Art Journal review.
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