Skip to main content

"Milky Way" || Painting by Janet Sobel

Art Series CONTRIBUTOR

Content of: "Milky Way" || Painting by Janet Sobel

Posted by Artplex • Profile • 03/15/22 at 03:18AM • Art • History • See more by Artplex

Janet Sobel (1893 – 1968) Born as Jennie Olechovskyat was a Ukrainian-American Abstract Expressionist painter whose career started mid-life  age forty-five in 1938. Sobel was the first artist to use the drip painting technique that directly influenced Jackson Pollock. She was credited as exhibiting the first instance of all-over painting seen by Clement Greenberg, a notable art critic. Read more.. There is also an interesting BBC article about her "The woman written out of history" By Kelly Grovier

This image is marked as Public Domain Mark 1.0 by CC

Snohomish, Skagit and Island County

Powered by Volunteers | 360-794-7959

Hunger impacts all of us | 360-435-1631

Read more from Pepe's Painting LLC