PHYLLIS SKOLNICK HIRSCHBERG DRAWING

Phyllis Skolnick Hirschberg. Pastel drawing on fine, off-white, wove paper, 23" x 12 1/4" (image), 24" x 13 3/8" (sheet); unsigned. The blank margins are smudged; pastel remains, verso. Undated; probably, by the early 1950s. Unmatted; unframed. Provenance: estate of the artist. Phyllis Skolnick Hirschberg (1925-2011), born in Brooklyn. Studied: Cooper Union and Art Students League (with Robert Gwathmey, Will Barnet, Morris Kantor); Wallace Harrison. One-person exhibitions: Winfield Gallery, New York, 1946; Guild Hall, East Hampton, 1972; others (untraced), in New York, greater New York (Huntington, Great Neck), and eastern Long Island. Numerous group exhibitions. Her output, created over 70 years, includes etchings, woodcuts, drawings, collage, portraiture, seascape, landscape. The artist described her method as that of Abstract Realism.