Martha Mayer Erlebacher

Martha Mayer Erlebacher
Self Portrait, 2011, Nero pencil on paper
Born(1937-11-21)November 21, 1937
Jersey City, New Jersey
DiedJune 22, 2013(2013-06-22) (aged 75)
Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
NationalityAmerican
Known forPainting
SpouseWalter S. Erlebacher

Martha Mayer Erlebacher ((1937-11-21)November 21, 1937 – (2013-06-22)June 22, 2013[1][2]) was an American painter. She attended Gettysburg College from 1955 to 1956. She received a BA in Industrial Design from the Pratt Institute. She also received an MFA from Pratt in 1963.[3] She is known for her trompe-l'œil still lifes and well as her representational figurative work of the nude body. She was influenced by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Italian and French painting traditions and well as by the realist Thomas Eakins.[4]

As a leading American realistic artist, she has exhibited her work over the past four decades at renowned art galleries in New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia.[5]

Erlebacher's work was used on the cover of The Figure: Painting Drawing and Sculpture, Contemporary Perspectives (2014).[6]

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  3. ^ Plous 1983, pp. 54–55.
  4. ^ Cozzolino 2012, pp. 266–267.
  5. ^ "Artists - Marth Mayer Erlebacher (1937-2013)". Sullivan Goss. Retrieved 2020-07-27.
  6. ^ Seed, John (30 September 2014). "Contemporary Art's Body Language". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 23 August 2022.