Sigmund Abeles (born 1934) is an American figurative artist and art educator. His work embodies the "expressive and psychological aspects of the human figure; an art focused on the life cycle." He taught art for 27 years at various institutions including Swain School of Design, Wellesley College, Boston University, the National Academy, and the Art Students League of New York. Currently Professor Emeritus at the University of New Hampshire, Abeles works full-time in his NYC and upstate NY studios. He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards for printmaking, drawing, painting, and sculpture, including Pastel Society of America Hall of Fame honoree in 2004 and most recently the Artists' Fellowship 2017 Benjamin West Clinedinst Medal. His work can be found in many public institutions including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Abeles was one of three artists featured in Manfred Kirchheimer's 2012 feature-length independent film Art Is... The Permanent Revolution, on the history of the art of protest in prints.
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Early life
Born in Brooklyn, New York City, Abeles grew up in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The only child of Samuel and Henrietta Abeles, he was named after his grandfather, a renowned Orthodox rabbi who immigrated to the United States from Hungary in 1901. His father, a Hungarian Jew, was a decorated World War I veteran who used his pension to open up a retail business in Sheeps Head Bay. His mother was of Polish-Jewish descent and worked as a librarian before her marriage. After his parents divorced early on in his life, he moved to Myrtle Beach with his mother where she started a new life by opening up a rooming house called Paul's Guest House on US Highway 17. Spending a great deal of time alone in the house, Sigmund grew a fascination for how many types of people occupy the same domain which had a huge impact and direction on his artwork took.
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Publications
- Ronald L. Ruble, The Print Renaissance in America--A Revolution (2015) ISBN 978-0-9861109-1-7
- Frye Art Museum, The Perception of Appearance. A Decade of Contemporary American Figure Drawing (2002) ISBN 0-295-98282-9
- Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery, American Portrait Drawings (1980)
- Matthew Baigell, Jewish Art in America--An Introduction (2007). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc.
- James A. Haught, The Art of Love Making, An Illustrated Tribute (1992). Prometheus Books. ISBN 0-87975-740-X
- David Acton, 60 Years of North American Prints 1947-2007 (2007). The Boston Printmakers. ISBN 0-615-31236-5
- Dan Gheno, Figure Drawing Master Class (2015). Dan Gheno published by North Light Books.
- Face to Face: Artists' Self Portraits from the Collection of Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr. Catalog 2013, Arkansas Arts Center
- Yellow Silk: Erotic Arts and Letters, ed. Lily Pond and Richard Russo (1991). Harmony Books. ISBN 0-517-57752-6
- Mirrors & Masks: Reflections and Constructions of the Self (2017). Bryn Mawr College
Solo exhibitions
- Carolina Roots: Sigmund Abeles, Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, SC, 2015
- Sigmund Abeles, The Old Print Shop, New York City, 2008
- From Whence I've Come, Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC, 2007
- Sigmund Abeles: Things to Come, Burroughs/Chapin Art Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC, 2001
- ABELES, Recent Pastels, Drawings & Print Survey, Thomas Williams Fine Arts, London, UK, catalog, 2000
- Print Retrospective, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME, catalog w/complete print listing, 1999
- The Observant Hand, 40 Years of Drawing by Sigmund Abeles, Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, 1998
- A 30-Year Retrospective of Drawings & Prints from the Collection of the Boston Public Library, 1993
References
External links
- Sigmund Abeles
- Art Students League
- Asheville Art Museum
- Art of the Print
- Johnson Collection
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