Married to abstract painter Ilya Bolotowsky in 1933, Esphyr Slobidkina was a textile designer of clearly defined stylized forms, illustrator, and painter in abstract style. She also created abstract... Read full biography
Married to abstract painter Ilya Bolotowsky in 1933, Esphyr Slobidkina was a textile designer of clearly defined stylized forms, illustrator, and painter in abstract style. She also created abstract collages, wrote and illustrated books, and was a WPA (Works Progress Administration) artist. She... Read full biography
Married to abstract painter Ilya Bolotowsky in 1933, Esphyr Slobidkina was a textile designer of clearly defined stylized forms, illustrator, and painter in abstract style. She also created abstract collages, wrote and illustrated books, and was a WPA (Works Progress Administration) artist. She came to the United States at the age of twenty from Russia. She was a founding member of the American Abstract Artist Group, which included Josef Albers, Ad Reinhardt, Willem de Kooning and Jackson... Read full biography
Married to abstract painter Ilya Bolotowsky in 1933, Esphyr Slobidkina was a textile designer of clearly defined stylized forms, illustrator, and painter in abstract style. She also created abstract collages, wrote and illustrated books, and was a WPA (Works Progress Administration) artist. She came to the United States at the age of twenty from Russia. She was a founding member of the American Abstract Artist Group, which included Josef Albers, Ad Reinhardt, Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollack. Slobodkina also enjoyed a career as a children's book author and illustrator. Her most famous book was the classic Caps For Sale published in 1938. Source: . Art in America, October, 2002. Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art... Read full biography
Married to abstract painter Ilya Bolotowsky in 1933, Esphyr Slobidkina was a textile designer of clearly defined stylized forms, illustrator, and painter in abstract style. She also created abstract collages, wrote and illustrated books, and was a WPA (Works Progress Administration) artist. She came to the United States at the age of twenty from Russia. She was a founding member of the American Abstract Artist Group, which included Josef Albers, Ad Reinhardt, Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollack. Slobodkina also enjoyed a career as a children's book author and illustrator. Her most famous book was the classic Caps For Sale published in 1938. Source: . Art in America, October, 2002. Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (16)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Community of Creativity A Century of MacDowell Colony Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Storr, Robert/Tom Wolf
103 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions
1990
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer
638 pages
The Ebsworth Collection: American Modernism, 1911-1947
1987
Saint Louis Art Museum
225 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America 1927-1944 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Lane, John R and Susan Larsen
256 pages (color)
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
American Picturebooks from Noah's Ark to the Beast Within
1976
Bader, Barbara
615 pages (color)
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
The World of Abstract Art
1957
American Abstract Artists
167 pages (color)
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index