Lena Gurr

Lena Gurr
At work in her Paris studio, around 1930
Born(1897-10-27)October 27, 1897[1]
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
DiedFebruary 19, 1992(1992-02-19) (aged 94)[1]
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
SpouseJoseph Biel

Lena Gurr (1897–1992), was an American artist who made paintings, prints, and drawings showing, as one critic said, "the joys and sorrows of everyday life."[2] Another critic noted that her still lifes, city scenes, and depictions of vacation locales were imbued with "quiet humor," while her portrayal of slum-dwellers and the victims of warfare revealed a "ready sympathy" for victims of social injustice at home and of warfare abroad.[3] During the course of her career Gurr's compositions retained emotional content as they evolved from a naturalistic to a semi-abstract cubist style.[4] Discussing this trend, she once told an interviewer that as her work tended toward increasing abstraction she believed it nonetheless "must have some kind of human depth to it." Born into a Russian-Jewish immigrant family, she was the wife of Joseph Biel, also Russian-Jewish and an artist of similar genre and sensibility.[4]

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