PHYLLIS SKOLNICK HIRSCHBERG ETCHING

Phyllis Skolnick Hirschberg. Etching on stout off-white wove paper, 11 7/8" x 8 7/8" (image), 13 3/4" x 12 3/4" (sheet); unsigned. The sheet's blank upper margin is stained with rust-like marks, the lower half of the blank right margin similarly stained; the image is not centered on the sheet. Undated; perhaps, the 1960s. One of a few proofs only. 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.