oil on canvas, 1956. Signed, J. Rothschild, and dated, 56, lower left. 660x1067 mm; 26x42 inches.
Provenance: The Artist; Private collection, Philadelphia, PA.
This work is registered with the Judith Rothschild Foundation (no. JR 56.15)
Judith Rothschild was a noted abstract painter who was active in New York City, California and the Cape between 1943 and her death in 1993. She graduated from Wellesley College, studied at Cranbrook Academy of Art, the Art Students Leagueand studied with Hans Hofmann and Karl Knaths, among others. She was a founding member of the Jane Street Gallery in NYC, the first artists' cooperativegallery in NYC with Nell Blaine, Larry Rivers and Jane Freilicher. She was a member of American Abstract Artists group, later becoming president. Rothschild has had many solo exhibitions in the United States and abroad, including a retrospective in 1998 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which travelled to the Phillips Collection and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The show was accompanied by a monograph by Jack Flam. Her work is in the collections of over 35 museums in Europe and the United States, including Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern, Sammlung Ludwig in Germany, the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Art in DC.
