Hedda Sterne | |
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 Hedda Sterne 1947 photograph by Margaret Bourke-White | |
| Born | Hedwig Lindenberg August 4, 1910 |
| Died | April 8, 2011 (aged 100) New York City, U.S. |
| Known for | Painting, drawing, printmaking, collage |
| Notable work | New York VII (1954); Machine 5 (1950); Third Avenue El (1952–53); New York, N.Y., 1955 (1955); New York (1956); Alaska I (1958) |
| Movement | Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism |
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Hedda Sterne (August 4, 1910 – April 8, 2011)[1] 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.[2] 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.
- ^ Art Daily, Hedda Sterne, America's Last Original Abstract Expressionist and Sole Woman in the Group, Dies Retrieved April 10, 2011.
- ^ Sterne, Hedda, Sarah L Eckhardt, Josef Helfenstein, and Lawrence Rinder. Uninterrupted flux: Hedda Sterne, a retrospective. Champaign, Ill.: Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, 2006.