A painter and sculptor known for her abstract, non-representational unconventional lifestyle, she grew up in New York, having been born in Brooklyn. She attended art classes at Leonardo da Vinci Art... Read full biography
A painter and sculptor known for her abstract, non-representational unconventional lifestyle, she grew up in New York, having been born in Brooklyn. She attended art classes at Leonardo da Vinci Art School and at age twenty two, married painter Balcomb Greene. They traveled together in Europe the... Read full biography
A painter and sculptor known for her abstract, non-representational unconventional lifestyle, she grew up in New York, having been born in Brooklyn. She attended art classes at Leonardo da Vinci Art School and at age twenty two, married painter Balcomb Greene. They traveled together in Europe the first five years of their marriage and then settled in New York City where she took a studio in Greenwich Village. Gertrude and several others organized the American Abstract Artists Association and... Read full biography
A painter and sculptor known for her abstract, non-representational unconventional lifestyle, she grew up in New York, having been born in Brooklyn. She attended art classes at Leonardo da Vinci Art School and at age twenty two, married painter Balcomb Greene. They traveled together in Europe the first five years of their marriage and then settled in New York City where she took a studio in Greenwich Village. Gertrude and several others organized the American Abstract Artists Association and also worked with the Artists Union and the Sculptors Guild. In the 1930s, she began working with wood reliefs, wall sculptures pieced together from painted wood forms that showed the influence of Cubism from her travels in Europe. By the 1940s, she... Read full biography
A painter and sculptor known for her abstract, non-representational unconventional lifestyle, she grew up in New York, having been born in Brooklyn. She attended art classes at Leonardo da Vinci Art School and at age twenty two, married painter Balcomb Greene. They traveled together in Europe the first five years of their marriage and then settled in New York City where she took a studio in Greenwich Village. Gertrude and several others organized the American Abstract Artists Association and also worked with the Artists Union and the Sculptors Guild. In the 1930s, she began working with wood reliefs, wall sculptures pieced together from painted wood forms that showed the influence of Cubism from her travels in Europe. By the 1940s, she devoted herself more to painting, using a palette knife. She died at age fifty-two. Source: American Women Artists by Charlott... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (26)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
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
America Gone Modern: From the Twenties to the Sixties (Exhibition catalog)
2000
Spanierman Gallery
56 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995
Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller
612 pages
The Remarkable Lives Of 100 Women Artists
1994
Bailey, Brooke
207 pages
American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art
1992
Strazdes, Diana
511 pages (color)
American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions
1990
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer
638 pages
The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art
1988
Columbus Museum of Art
271 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900
1985
Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie
851 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 Women Artists from Early Times to the Present
1982
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer
560 pages (color)
Drawing Acquisitions, 1978-1981 Whitney Museum of American Art
1981
Cummings, Paul
64 pages
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
American Art 1934-1956 Selections from Whitney Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Whitney Museum
148 pages (color)
Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
1977
Barr, Alfred H
655 pages
200 Years of American Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Armstrong, Tom
336 pages (color)
Geometric Abstraction in America (Exhibition catalog)
1962
Gordon, John
68 pages (color)
The World of Abstract Art
1957
American Abstract Artists
167 pages (color)
Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America (Exhibition catalog)
1951
Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff
159 pages (color)
Modern Art in America
1939
Cheney, Martha Candler
190 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index