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56 The Heckscher Museum of Art
EXHIBITIONS
Slobodkina Rediscovered:
A Pioneer of American Abstraction
January 10 through March 22
To celebrate the hundredth anniversary of her birth, a mini-retrospective of this
Russian-American artist will include works from The Heckscher Museum’s extensive
Slobodkina holdings, supplemented with works from the collection of the Slobodkina
Foundation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and
the National Museum of American Art. Although Slobodkina’s earliest paintings are
impressionistic, under the influence of cubism she began working in an abstracted
style and her most important work is non-objective. A founding member of the
American Abstract Artists group in 1936, Slobodkina executed works in all media, but
is most widely known as the author/illustrator of the children’s book Caps for Sale.
Paintings, sculpture, and works on paper will be included in this installation, the first
venue of the larger traveling exhibition organized by the Slobodkina Foundation.
Esphyr Slobodkina, Vortex #2, 1991, oil on masonite, 48 x 48 in. Gift of the Artist. 1997.012.023;