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Susan Charna Rothenberg BIOGRAPHY
1945 Buffalo, New York - 2020 Galisteo, New Mexico. Known for: Modernist figure painting, horses, fragments, sculpture.
Susan Rothenberg, Acclaimed Figurative Painter, Dies at 75, Online obituary, The New York Times, by RAndy Kennedy, May 21, 2020. Her raw renditions of horses and other figures breathed new life into... Read full biography
Susan Rothenberg, Acclaimed Figurative Painter, Dies at 75, Online obituary, The New York Times, by RAndy Kennedy, May 21, 2020. Her raw renditions of horses and other figures breathed new life into painting when the genre was under siege in 1970s SoHo. Susan Rothenberg, whose flayed, lushly... Read full biography
Susan Rothenberg, Acclaimed Figurative Painter, Dies at 75, Online obituary, The New York Times, by RAndy Kennedy, May 21, 2020. Her raw renditions of horses and other figures breathed new life into painting when the genre was under siege in 1970s SoHo. Susan Rothenberg, whose flayed, lushly foreboding paintings radiated a Paleolithic grandeur and helped usher figuration back into an art world that had declared it extinct in the 1970s, died on Monday at her home in Galisteo, N.M. She was 75.... Read full biography
Susan Rothenberg, Acclaimed Figurative Painter, Dies at 75, Online obituary, The New York Times, by RAndy Kennedy, May 21, 2020. Her raw renditions of horses and other figures breathed new life into painting when the genre was under siege in 1970s SoHo. Susan Rothenberg, whose flayed, lushly foreboding paintings radiated a Paleolithic grandeur and helped usher figuration back into an art world that had declared it extinct in the 1970s, died on Monday at her home in Galisteo, N.M. She was 75. Her death was confirmed by the Sperone Westwater gallery, which has represented her for more than 30 years. A specific cause was not given, though she had been ill for some time. As an art student at Cornell University, Ms. Rothenberg dreamed of... Read full biography
Susan Rothenberg, Acclaimed Figurative Painter, Dies at 75, Online obituary, The New York Times, by RAndy Kennedy, May 21, 2020. Her raw renditions of horses and other figures breathed new life into painting when the genre was under siege in 1970s SoHo. Susan Rothenberg, whose flayed, lushly foreboding paintings radiated a Paleolithic grandeur and helped usher figuration back into an art world that had declared it extinct in the 1970s, died on Monday at her home in Galisteo, N.M. She was 75. Her death was confirmed by the Sperone Westwater gallery, which has represented her for more than 30 years. A specific cause was not given, though she had been ill for some time. As an art student at Cornell University, Ms. Rothenberg dreamed of becoming a sculptor but switched to painting after the head of the sculpture department flunked her, seemingly displeased w... Read full biography
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Susan Rothenberg, Acclaimed Figurative Painter, Dies at 75, Online obituary, The New York Times, by RAndy Kennedy, May 21, 2020
Her raw renditions of horses and other figures breathed new life into painting when the genre was under siege in 1970s SoHo.
Susan Rothenberg, whose flayed, lushly foreboding paintings radiated a Paleolithic grandeur and helped usher figuration back into an art world that had declared it extinct in the 1970s, died on Monday at her home in Galisteo, N.M. She was 75.
Her death was confirmed by the Sperone Westwater gallery, which has represented her for more than 30 years. A specific cause was not given, though she had been ill for some time.
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