Hedda Sterne (born August 4, 1910), born in Bucharest, Romania, is an artist best remembered as the only woman in a group of Abstract Expressionists known as "The Irascibles" which consisted of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, and more. Sterne was, in fact, the only woman photographed with the group in Life magazine. In her artistic career, she is known for maintaining a stubborn independence from styles and trends...
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Hedda Sterne (born August 4, 1910), born in Bucharest, Romania, is an artist best remembered as the only woman in a group of Abstract Expressionists known as "The Irascibles" which consisted of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, and more. Sterne was, in fact, the only woman photographed with the group in Life magazine. In her artistic career, she is known for maintaining a stubborn independence from styles and trends, including Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism, with which she is often associated.
Sterne has been almost completely overlooked in art historical narratives of the post-war American art scene. Possibly the last surviving artist of the first-generation New York School, Hedda Sterne views her widely varied works more as in flux than as definitive statements. In 1944 she married Saul Steinberg the Romanian-born American cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his work for The New Yorker.
During the late 1940s she became a member of the...
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