New York

Hedda SterneWW-1956-137740

1956·Oil and aerosol spray paint on canvas·81.6 × 127 cm (32 1/8 × 50 1/8 in.)

<p>In 1941 Hedda Sterne fled her home of Bucharest for New York City, where she befriended avant-garde artists including Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, and Jackson Pollock. Despite her connection to this community of abstract painters, throughout her 60-year career Sterne remained focused on the world around her. As she once explained, “for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see.” In <em>New York</em> Sterne layered opaque and transparent planes to create an intricately composed window onto the density and vibrancy of the city</p>

Catalogue

Year: 1956
Medium: Oil and aerosol spray paint on canvas
Dimensions: 81.6 × 127 cm (32 1/8 × 50 1/8 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Hedda Sterne

Artist

Hedda Sterne

Painting

Hedda Sterne was a Romanian-born American artist who was an active member of the New York School of painters. Her work is often associated with Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism. She was also the only woman to appear in the famous photograph of abstract expressionist artists dubbed "The Irascibles", although the group included other women.

Bucharest, Romania

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