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    Artist

  • Kolin, Sacha, 1911-1981

    • Title

  • Ghost Town

  • Physical Description

    Woodcut : Blue ink on paper ; 12.5" x 37", 31.7 centimeters x 94 centimeters

  • Date

    1959

  • Summary

    Blue abstraction. Signed, titled and dated 1959 with "8/15" in lower left. Warped mat. On back of mat, notes on the work, including, "exhibited Gurdon Riley Gallery one man show 1958 Associated American Artists."

  • Medium

    Abstract works; Woodcuts; Prints; Paintings

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Biographical/Historical Information

Kolin was a painter and sculptor, born in Paris, France in 1911. She grew up in Vienna, Austria, attending the Wiener Kunstgewerbeschule (1930) and the Academy of Fine Arts (1931-1932). She was one of few women to exhibit in the annuals of the Secession and the Künstlerhaus. In 1933 she moved to Paris and studied with Naoum Aronson (a stone carver for Auguste Rodin). In 1935, she became the youngest full member of the Nationale Societe des Beaux Arts. In December 1936, she immigrated to New York and participated in many one-person and group exhibitions. Her career history includes 19 one-person exhibitions and over 125 group shows. She was the recipient of a Mark Rothko Foundation grant award in 1973; the same year her monumental aluminum sculpture Drawing in the Sky #1 was installed during a show at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York where it remains on exhibition. She died in 1981 in New York.

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Kolin, Sacha: Ghost Town, Leo Baeck Institute, 2012.137.