Boat Building, from American Abstract Artists 60th Anniversary Print Portfolio

Esphyr Slobodkina was an American painter and printmaker born in Manchuria and based in New York from the 1930s onward. Her abstract compositions employed bold geometric forms and a restrained color palette rooted in constructivist principles. Slobodkina remained committed to non-objective painting throughout her career, developing a distinctive vocabulary of interlocking planes and linear structures that evolved across several decades of sustained studio practice.

Chelyabinsk, Russia