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1908 Tcheliabinsk, Russia - 2002 Glen Head, New York. Known for: Assemblage, geometric abstract painting, illustration.
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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Keywords (31)
Art Method
- •Art Design
- •Children's Book, Juvenile Literature Illustration
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Poster Art, Poster Design
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Geometric Abstraction, Linear, Grids, Hard Edge
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
Art Subject
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Russia
Art Association
- •American Abstract Artists-
Art School
- •National Academy of Design School, New York, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •MacDowell Art Colony Fellowship, Resident
- •Yaddo Resident Artist
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Abstraction Specialty
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Russian
Exhibition of Museum
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art