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Oil on canvas in artist's painted frame. Abstract Expressionism.

h. 78.7 x w. 94 cm

1951

Oil on canvas

Provenance

Estate of the artist, New York
Christopher C. Schwabacher and Brenda S. Webster, Califorina and New York
Gift from the above to The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Newfields, 1991
Acquired at Christie's, Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale, New York, 2020, Deaccessioned Christie's NY, 15th December 2020, sale 18985, lot 98, Property from The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

Publications

Indianapolis Museum of Art, , [On-line]. Available at: http://collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/38825/
Betty Parsons Gallery, Ethel Schwabacher, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, 20th June 1953, no. 4
J. E. Johnson, L. Jayne, Walker and B. S. Webster, "Ethel Schwabacher: The Lyric/Epic and the Personal", Woman's Art Journal, Spring/Summer 1989, vol. 10, no. 1
R. Cohen, "Ethel Schwabacher: Gallery Schlesinger Limited", Artforum, New York, 1989-11, vol. 28, no. 3, p. 153
A. E. Gibson, Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics, Yale University Press, London, 1997, Color Plate, fig. 179, p. 150
Christie's, Online Auction, 2020, [On-line]. Available at: https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/first-open-online/ethel-schwabacher-1903-1984-98/109235
Apollo Art Magazine: Maggie Gray, Women artists make a radical mess at the Whitechapel Gallery, 16th February 2023, [On-line]. Available at: https://www.apollo-magazine.com/women-artists-abstract-expressionism-whitechapel-gallery/
Eddy Frankel, "Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-70", TimeOut, UK, 7th February 2023, [On-line]. Available at: https://www.timeout.com/london/art/action-gesture-paint-women-artists-and-global-abstraction-1940-70
White Chapel, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh Arles, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Action, Geste, Peinture : Femmes dans l’abstraction, une histoire mondiale 1940-1970, Bice Curiger, 2023, p. 91
"Review: Female abstract expressionists. Discover the practices of women artists working with gestural abstraction in the aftermath of the Second World War.", Contemporary Lynx, 27th March 2023, [On-line]. Available at: https://contemporarylynx.co.uk/female-abstract-expressionists

Exhibitions

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Newfirelds, USA, 1991 — 2020
Schwabacher: Paintings and Glass Collages 1951-1953, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, USA, 1st June 1953 — 20th June 1953
Ethel Schwabacher, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, USA, 26th April 1954 — 26th April 1954
Ethel Schwabacher: Abstract Expressionism Works, Gallery Schlesinger Limited, New York, USA, 11th September 1989 — 7th October 1989
Action/Gesture/Paint: A Global Story of Women and Abstraction 1940-1970, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, 7th February 2023 — 14th May 2023
Action/Gesture/Paint: A Global Story of Women and Abstraction 1940-1970, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France, 4th June 2023 — 22nd October 2023
Action/Gesture/Paint: A Global Story of Women and Abstraction 1940-1970, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, December 2023 — March 2024

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