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1899 Kiev, Russia - 1988 New York City. Known for: Cubist monchromatic wood assemblage.
Creator of wood assemblages made from found objects and parts of furniture doused in black paint, Louise Nevelson became the darling of the New York art world, especially during the last three... Read full biography
Creator of wood assemblages made from found objects and parts of furniture doused in black paint, Louise Nevelson became the darling of the New York art world, especially during the last three decades of her life when her success was assured. She cultivated an artistic image, was thin and draped... Read full biography
Creator of wood assemblages made from found objects and parts of furniture doused in black paint, Louise Nevelson became the darling of the New York art world, especially during the last three decades of her life when her success was assured. She cultivated an artistic image, was thin and draped clothes haphazardly on her figure, smoked small cigars, and wore exceedingly long, fake eyelashes. She was born Louise Berliawsky in Kiev, Russia, and at age five, moved with her family to Rockland,... Read full biography
Creator of wood assemblages made from found objects and parts of furniture doused in black paint, Louise Nevelson became the darling of the New York art world, especially during the last three decades of her life when her success was assured. She cultivated an artistic image, was thin and draped clothes haphazardly on her figure, smoked small cigars, and wore exceedingly long, fake eyelashes. She was born Louise Berliawsky in Kiev, Russia, and at age five, moved with her family to Rockland, Maine where her father ran a lumber yard. In a town that was mostly Protestant, middle class, white people, she felt out of place as a Jew and an immigrant. In 1920, she moved to New York, studied at the Art Students League with Kenneth Hayes Miller,... Read full biography
Creator of wood assemblages made from found objects and parts of furniture doused in black paint, Louise Nevelson became the darling of the New York art world, especially during the last three decades of her life when her success was assured. She cultivated an artistic image, was thin and draped clothes haphazardly on her figure, smoked small cigars, and wore exceedingly long, fake eyelashes. She was born Louise Berliawsky in Kiev, Russia, and at age five, moved with her family to Rockland, Maine where her father ran a lumber yard. In a town that was mostly Protestant, middle class, white people, she felt out of place as a Jew and an immigrant. In 1920, she moved to New York, studied at the Art Students League with Kenneth Hayes Miller, and married Charles Nevelson, whose "WASP" family she regarded as terribly stuffy. They had a son, and when he... Read full biography
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Keywords (84)
Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Direct Carver, Hand Carving
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
- •Acrylic Paint
- •Aluminum/Aluminium
- •Aquatint
- •Art Pottery
- •Assemblage
- •Brass
- •Bronze
- •Cardboard
- •Ceramic Art, Porcelain, Design and/or Decoration
- •Ceramics
- •Colored Pencil
- •Fiberglass
- •Gold
- •Ink
- •Marble
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Pencil, Graphite Drawing
- •Plaster
- •Plastics
- •Plexiglas
- •Resin
- •Steel, Stainless Steel
- •Stone and/or Limestone
- •Terracotta, Terra Cotta
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
- •Wood for carving, sculpture, and/or surface
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Cubism, Cubist
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Environment
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Hand-Crafted Objects
- •Human Head Images, Portrait Heads, Faces
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Nude Figure, Nudity
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Russia
Art Association
- •Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors
- •National Association of Women Artists, Painters and Sculptors
- •Salons of America
- •SculptureCenter
- •Society of Independent Artists-
Art Teacher
- •Hans Hofmann
- •Kenneth Hayes Miller
- •Kimon Nicolaides
Art School
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •Atelier 17, Stanley Hayter Workshop, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •National Medal of Arts
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Art Enterprises Collection
- •First National Bank of Chicago Collection
- •Harrison Sculpture Garden: University of Minnesota Arboretum
- •Karen and Robert Duncan Collection, Lincoln NE
- •Sara Roby Foundation
- •Storm King Art Center Sculpture Installation, New York
Added Description
- •Abstraction Specialty
- •Figure Specialty
- •Printmaking Specialty
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Russian
Artist Colony
- •Silvermine Guild, Art Colony
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim, New York City
- •Grand Central Art Galleries, New York City
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Venice Biennale
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Carolina Art Association-
- •National Association of Women Artists, Painters and Sculptors)
- •Salons of America-
- •Silvermine Artists Guild
- •Society of Independent Artists--
Exhibition of Museum
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts