Susan Schwalb is a contemporary
silverpoint
Silverpoint (one of several types of metalpoint) is a traditional drawing technique first used by medieval scribes on manuscripts.
History
A silverpoint drawing is made by dragging a silver rod or wire across a surface, often prepared with gesso ...
artist.
Biography
Schwalb was born in New York City (in 1944). She attended the
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...
.
In 1983 she married composer
Martin Boykan
Martin Boykan (April 12, 1931 – March 6, 2021) was an American composer known for his chamber music as well as music for larger ensembles.
Biography
Boykan was born in New York City. He studied composition first with Walter Piston at Harvard ...
and works from her
Manhattan
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studio.
Her work is represented in the
National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art, and its attached Sculpture Garden, is a national art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of char ...
, Washington D.C.,
The
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...
the
British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...
, London,
the
Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 1.5 million objects. Located near the Prospect Heights, Crown H ...
, New York,
the
Fogg Museum
The Harvard Art Museums are part of Harvard University and comprise three museums: the Fogg Museum (established in 1895), the Busch-Reisinger Museum (established in 1903), and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum (established in 1985), and four research ...
, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
the
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas,
the
Library of Congress
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, Washington, DC,
the
Rose Art Museum
The Rose Art Museum, founded in 1961, is a part of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, US. Named after benefactors Edward and Bertha Rose, it offers temporary exhibitions, and it displays and houses works of art from the permanent col ...
, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts,
and the
Yale University Art Gallery
The Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) is the oldest university art museum in the Western Hemisphere. It houses a major encyclopedic collection of art in several interconnected buildings on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. ...
, New Haven, Connecticut.
References
Further reading
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Beck-Friedman, Tova, November 2005, "Susan Schwalb: Drawn in Metal", The New York Art World
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Broude, Norma and
Garrard, Mary (ed), (1994), "The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact," Harry Abrams
*Cohen, Joyce, August/September 1996, "Galaxies and Other Matter and Intervals", Art New England
*Earley, Sandra, 9 September 1985, "Art: The Siren Song of Silverpoint", The Wall Street Journal
*Eshoo, Amy, 560 Broadway- A New York Drawing Collection at Work, 1991–2006, Yale University Press, 2007
*Faxon, Alicia, Susan Schwalb: Moments of Resonance, Art New England, June/July ’99
*Faxon, Alicia, Drawing: Line or Image, New Art Examiner, 1/90
*Faxon, Alicia and Moore, Sylvia, Pilgrims and Pioneers: New England Women in the Arts, Midmarch Arts Books, 1987
*Glueck, Grace, Imagery from the Jewish Consciousness, The New York Times, 6/6/82
*Harrison, Helen A., Contemporary Metalpoint Drawings, The New York Times, 4/3/94
*Heller, Jules and Nancy G., American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century, Garland Publishing Co., 1995
*Kohen, Helen L., Silverpoint Makes for Golden Exhibit, The Miami Herald, 4/21/85
*Langdon, Ann, The Creation Series, Art New England, December 1992 / January 1993
*Langer, Cassandra, The Creation Series: 15 Years of Silverpoint, Women Artists News, Fall 1990
*Mandel, Elizabeth, Intricate Enigma: a look at silverpoint, then and now, ArtsEditor.com, 1/25/2010
*
Marter, Joan, Susan Schwalb, Womanart, Winter ’77-’78
*Mathews-Berenson, Margaret, The Light Touch, American Artist Drawing, Spring, 2004
*McQuaid, Cate, Public Eyes; Light Grids; Gallery on the MBTA, The Boston Globe, 3/4/99
*McQuaid, Cate, Natural Deceptions; Rejoicing Stars, Boston Globe, 5/2/96
*Miller, Lynn and Swenson, Sally, Lives and Works, Talks with Women Artists, Scarecrow Press, 1981
*Orenstein, Gloria, Feman Vision and Visibility: Contemporary Jewish Women Artists Visualize the Invisible, Femspec, Vol.4 Issue 2, Lexington Press, 2004
*Schwendenwien, Jude, From Religious Symbols to Detailed Abstractions, The Hartford Courant, 10/25/92
*Soltes, Ori Z., Fixing the World: Jewish American Painters in the Twentieth Century, Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, 2003
*Soltes, Ori Z., Heilige Zeichen, Parthas Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2007
*Temin, Christine, Silverpoint's Delicate Power, The Boston Globe, 11/14/85
*Walentini, Joseph Susan Schwalb, Abstract Art Online Vol. VI, No. 3 (www.abartonline.com), 12/4/03
*Waterman, Jill, Delicate Understandings, ArtsMedia, 6/15- 7/15/00
*Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender, Fall, Number 16, 2008
External links
Susan Schwalb's websiteAskart.com - Susan Schwalb
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20th-century American painters
21st-century American painters
American printmakers
American abstract artists
Painters from New York City
Carnegie Mellon University College of Fine Arts alumni
Living people
1944 births
20th-century American women artists
American women printmakers
21st-century American women artists
American women painters
The High School of Music & Art alumni