Sylvia Plimack Mangold (born September 18, 1938) is an American

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, and pastelist. She is known for her representational depictions of interiors and

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s. She is the mother of

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James Mangold James Allen Mangold (born December 16, 1963) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for the films ''Cop Land'' (1997), '' Girl, Interrupted'' (1999), ''Walk the Line'' (2005), '' 3:10 to Yuma'' (2007), '' The Wolverine'' (2013) and '' Logan'' ...

and musician Andrew Mangold.

Life and career

Sylvia Plimack was born in

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to a family of

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background. She is the daughter of Ethel (Rein), an office administrator, and Maurice Plimack, an accountant and businessman. She grew up in

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, and attended the High School of Music and Art in

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, after high school she was accepted into the program at

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in 1956. She continued her studies at

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and graduated with a B.F.A. in 1961. In the same year she married Yale classmate and fellow painter

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. After studying at Yale with William Bailey and others, Plimack Mangold worked as a representational painter. Her paintings in the early 1960s were paintings of floors, walls and corners, compositions where mirror images were also introduced, making the space more complex. In the 1970s, she added ''

trompe-l'œil ''Trompe-l'œil'' ( , ; ) is an artistic term for the highly realistic optical illusion of three-dimensional space and objects on a two-dimensional surface. ''Trompe l'oeil'', which is most often associated with painting, tricks the viewer into ...

'' elements such as metal rulers and masking tape along the borders of the images. In the 1980s she introduced the images of the landscape to the canvas affixed by the image of masking tape. Eventually, the landscape image filled the entire canvas and focused on individual trees, their branches cropped so as to create the spaces between the limbs and branches of the trees. All the landscape paintings are done from observation. Even as the subject matter of Plimack Mangold's paintings has shifted, her work has always been based in perceptual realism, inviting viewers to observe from up close and mirroring her own process of observation. Mangold received a grant from the

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in 1975. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area. It contains 8,161 paintings and more than 450,000 works ...

, the

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at the

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, the

Albright-Knox Art Gallery The Buffalo AKG Art Museum, formerly known as the Albright–Knox Art Gallery, is an art museum at 1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York, in Delaware Park. the museum's Elmwood Avenue campus is temporarily closed for construction. It hosted e ...

(Buffalo, New York), and the

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(

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), and is represented in the aforementioned museums in Boston, Hartford, and the

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. Mangold received the 2007 Cooper Union President’s Citation Award and was inducted into The Cooper Union Hall of Fame in 2009.

Selected exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions

* 2017: ''Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Summer and Winter'', Alexander and Bonin, New York * 2016: ''Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Floors and Rulers, 1967-76'', Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York * 2012-13: ''Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Landscape and Trees'',

Norton Museum of Art The Norton Museum of Art is an art museum located in West Palm Beach, Florida. Its collection includes over 8,200 works, with a concentration in European, American, and Chinese art as well as in contemporary art and photography. In 2003, it overt ...

, West Palm Beach, Florida * 1999: ''Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Trees'',

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art ("The Johnson Museum") is an art museum located on the northwest corner of the Arts Quad on the main campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Its collection includes two windows from Frank Lloyd W ...

, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY * 1997: ''New Paintings and Watercolors'', Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich * 1995: ''Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Paintings, 1990- 1995'', Brooke Alexander, New York * 1994-96: ''The Paintings of Sylvia Plimack Mangold'',

, Buffalo, NY;

, Hartford, CT;

Blaffer Art Museum Blaffer Art Museum is a non-collecting contemporary art museum located in the Arts District of the University of Houston campus. Housed in the university’s Fine Arts Building, it is part of the Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts. It was fo ...

, University of Houston;

* 1992: ''Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Works on Paper 1968-1991'',

University of Michigan Museum of Art The University of Michigan Museum of Art in Ann Arbor, Michigan with is one of the largest university art museums in the United States. Built as a war memorial in 1909 for the university's fallen alumni from the Civil War, Alumni Memorial Hall ori ...

, Ann Arbor;

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) is an arts museum located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Home to more than 90,000 works of art representing 5,000 years of world history, Mia is one of the largest art museums in the United State ...

; Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA;

Neuberger Museum Neuberger Museum of Art is located in Purchase, New York, United States. It is affiliated with Purchase College, part of the State University of New York system. It is the nation's tenth-largest university museum. The museum is one of 14 sites on ...

, State University of New York at Purchase;

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, Wesleyan University * 1985: Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago * 1982: ''Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Paintings 1965-1982'',

Madison Art Center The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA), formerly known as the Madison Art Center, is an independent, non-profit art museum located in downtown Madison, Wisconsin. MMoCA is dedicated to exhibiting, collecting, and preserving modern and co ...

, WI;

Grand Rapids Art Museum The Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) is an art museum located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, with collections ranging from Renaissance to Modern Art and special collections on 19th and 20th-century European and American art. Its holdings ...

, MI * 1982: ''The Art of Sylvia Plimack Mangold'', Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC * 1981: ''Perspectives: Sylvia Mangold: Nocturnal Paintings'', Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston * 1980-81: ''Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Matrix 62'',

, Hartford * 1980: Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago * 1980: ''Sylvia Mangold'', Ohio State University Gallery of Fine Art, Columbus * 1978: Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich * 1978: Droll/Kolbert Gallery, New York * 1975: ''Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Recent Paintings'', Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco * 1974: Fischbach Gallery, New York

Selected group exhibitions

* 2017: ''Looking Back / The 11th White Columns Annual'',

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, New York * 2017: ''Elements of XXX, Part I'', 47 Canal, New York * 2016: ''Approaching American Abstraction'',

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art, and was ...

* 2013: ''EXPO 1: New York'',

MoMA PS1 MoMA PS1 is a contemporary art institution located in Court Square in the Long Island City neighborhood in the borough of Queens, New York City. In addition to its exhibitions, the institution organizes the Sunday Sessions performance series, th ...

, Long Island City * 2012-13: ''Materializing “Six Years”: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art'',

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 ...

* 2011: ''Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards'',

American Academy of Arts and Letters The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 300-member honor society whose goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature, music, and art. Its fixed number membership is elected for lifetime appointments. Its headqu ...

, New York * 2007: ''WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution'',

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) is a contemporary art museum with two locations in greater Los Angeles, California. The main branch is located on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, near the Walt Disney Concert Hall. MOCA's o ...

;

The National Museum of Women in the Arts The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), located in Washington, D.C., is "the first museum in the world solely dedicated" to championing women through the arts. NMWA was incorporated in 1981 by Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay. Since open ...

, Washington, DC; MoMA PS1, New York;

Vancouver Art Gallery The Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) is an art museum in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The museum occupies a adjacent to Robson Square in downtown Vancouver, making it the largest art museum in Western Canada by building size. Designed by Franc ...

, BC * 2006: ''Plane Figure: American Art in Swiss Private Collections and from the Kunstmuseum Winterthur'',

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* 2004: ''Neil Jenney, Ree Morton, Sylvia Plimack Mangold: early works 1965-1975'', Alexander and Bonin, New York * 2002: ''110 Years: The Permanent Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth'',

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (widely referred to as The Modern) is an art museum of post-World War II art in Fort Worth, Texas with a collection of international modern and contemporary art. Founded in 1892, The Modern is located in the c ...

, TX * 1999: ''Afterimage: Drawing Through Process'', The

* 1993: ''Yale Collects Yale, 1950-1993'',

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, New Haven, CT * 1991: ''Open Mind: The LeWitt Collection'',

, Hartford, CT *1980: ''Drawings: The Pluralist Decade, United States Pavilion, Venice Biennial XXXIX''; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Henie Onstad Museum, Hovikodden, Norway; Biblioteca Nationale Madrid; Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon * 1977: ''Ten Years 1967-1977: A View of the Decade'',

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago is a contemporary art museum near Water Tower Place in downtown Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The museum, which was established in 1967, is one of the world's largest contemporary ...

* 1977: ''

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'', Kassel, Germany * 1975: ''1975 Selections from the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel'', The Clocktower Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S. 1 (now

), Long Island City, NY * 1972: ''Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting'', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York * 1971: ''Summer Exhibition: Tony Berlant, Mario Dubsky, Sylvia Mangold, Gordon Newton, Susan Shatter, Sylvia Stone, Robert Swain, Lynton Wells'', Knoedler Gallery, New York * 1969: ''Direct Representation: An Exhibition of Five New Realist Artists Selected by Scott Burton'', Fischbach Gallery, New York; London Arts Gallery, Detroit * 1968: ''Realism Now'',

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, Poughkeepsie, NY

Selected collections

* Museum of Fine Arts, Boston *

, Buffalo *

Art Institute of Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago's Grant Park, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the world. Recognized for its curatorial efforts and popularity among visitors, the museum hosts approximately 1.5 mill ...

* Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX * Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford *

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), is an art museum located in the Houston Museum District of Houston, Texas. With the recent completion of an eight-year campus redevelopment project, including the opening of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Build ...

Indianapolis Museum of Art The Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) is an encyclopedic art museum located at Newfields, a campus that also houses Lilly House, The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park: 100 Acres, the Gardens at Newfields, the Beer Garden, and more. It i ...

Nelson-Atkins Museum The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an art museum in Kansas City, Missouri, known for its encyclopedic collection of art from nearly every continent and culture, and especially for its extensive collection of Asian art. In 2007, ''Time'' magaz ...

, Kansas City, MO *

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 documen ...

, London *

Minneapolis Institute of Art The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) is an arts museum located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Home to more than 90,000 works of art representing 5,000 years of world history, Mia is one of the largest art museums in the United State ...

s * Walker Art Center, Minneapolis * Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven * Brooklyn Museum, New York *

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 ...

, New York * The Museum of Modern Art, New York *

New Museum of Contemporary Art The New Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, is a museum in New York City at 235 Bowery, on Manhattan's Lower East Side. History The museum originally opened in a space in the Graduate Center of the then-named New Scho ...

, New York *

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, New York * Whitney Museum of American Art, New York *

Utah Museum of Fine Arts The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) is the region's primary resource for culture and visual arts. It is located in the Marcia and John Price Museum Building in Salt Lake City, Utah on the University of Utah campus near Rice-Eccles Stadium. Works ...

, Salt Lake City * Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University *

, Switzerland *

, West Palm Beach

Selected bibliography

* ''Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Floors and Rules, 1967–76''. Published by Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York, 2016 * ''Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Landscape and Trees'', ex. cat. West Palm Beach, Florida: Norton Museum of Art, 2012 * ''Sylvia Plimack Mangold''. Published by Alexander and Bonin, New York, 2012 * ''Natural Sympathies: Sylvia Plimack Mangold and Lovis Corinth Works on Paper''. Published by Alexander and Bonin, New York, 2009 * ''The Paintings of Sylvia Plimack Mangold''. Co-published by Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo and Hudson Hills Press, New York, 1994 * ''Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Works on Paper 1968-1991''. Co-published by Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University and University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 1992 * ''Sylvia Plimack Mangold Paintings 1987-1989''. Published by Brooke Alexander, New York, 1989 * ''Sylvia Plimack Mangold Paintings 1965-1982''. Published by Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin, 1982 * ''Inches and Field''. Published by Lapp Princess Press Ltd., New York, 1978

References

Sources

Biography, National Museum of Women in the Arts
*Brutvan, Cheryl, ''The Paintings of Sylvia Plimack Mangold'', Hudson Hills Press, September 1994,

External links

Dallas Museum of ArtMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston
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