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Abelman, Ida York [1910-2002. USA. Jewellery Designer/Graphic Artist/Painter/Muralist]
Abelman, Ida York [1910-2002. USA. Jewellery Designer/Graphic Artist/Painter/Muralist]
Ida York Abelman [also known as Ida Abelman] was born Ida York, the daughter of Russian and Polish immigrants, in New York City 12 February 1910* and studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City; Hunter College in New York City; and the Design Laboratory in New York City. She subsequently worked primarily as a painter and graphic artist.
At the age of 19 she married Larry Abelman. In the 1930s and early 1940s Abelman was active in the Graphic Arts Division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in New York, and painted a mural at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. During this period she joined the American Artists Congress and went to Sioux City, Iowa, where she worked on an exhibition on public housing. Following her return to New York City she was awarded a commission to paint a mural for a Post Office in Lewiston, Illinois. She took as her theme a debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas that took place in Lewiston. This was followed by a mural in Boonsville, Indiana that depicted the town’s founder, Daniel Boone.
Abelman’s work as a graphic artist reveal the influences of of Surrealism and Constructivism.
During the mid-1940s the Abelmans moved to Sag Harbor, New York where Ida Abelman continued to paint. She also produced ceramics and designed jewellery. A photograph of a forged copper brooch by her is illustrated in ‘Craft Horizons’ vol.24, no.3, May/June 1964 (p.71)
Ida Abelman exhibited at the Federal Art Gallery in New York City (1938); and at Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; the Museum of Modern Art in New York City; Philadelphia Art Alliance in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts; and Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
Ida York Abelman died in Sag Harbor, New York on 30 December 2002.
Examples of her work are in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois; Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, Maryland; Detroit Institute of the Arts in Detroit, Michigan; Greenville Museum of Art in Greenville, North Carolina; University of Kentucky Art Museum in Lexington, Kentucky; Allen R. Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville in Crestwood, Kentucky; Newark Art Museum iun Newark, New Jersey; University of Oregon Museum of Art in Portland, Oregon; Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; St. Louis Art Museum in St. Louis, Missouri; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, California; The University of Michigan Museum of Art in Ann Arbor, Michigan; Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota; and the Library of Congress in Washington, DC
* Note: this is the date given in her entry in ‘Who’s Who in American Art’ vol.3, 1940-41 (Washington, DC: The American Federation of Arts, 1940), however, other sources give her date of birth as 12 February 1908
At the age of 19 she married Larry Abelman. In the 1930s and early 1940s Abelman was active in the Graphic Arts Division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in New York, and painted a mural at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. During this period she joined the American Artists Congress and went to Sioux City, Iowa, where she worked on an exhibition on public housing. Following her return to New York City she was awarded a commission to paint a mural for a Post Office in Lewiston, Illinois. She took as her theme a debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas that took place in Lewiston. This was followed by a mural in Boonsville, Indiana that depicted the town’s founder, Daniel Boone.
Abelman’s work as a graphic artist reveal the influences of of Surrealism and Constructivism.
During the mid-1940s the Abelmans moved to Sag Harbor, New York where Ida Abelman continued to paint. She also produced ceramics and designed jewellery. A photograph of a forged copper brooch by her is illustrated in ‘Craft Horizons’ vol.24, no.3, May/June 1964 (p.71)
Ida Abelman exhibited at the Federal Art Gallery in New York City (1938); and at Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; the Museum of Modern Art in New York City; Philadelphia Art Alliance in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts; and Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
Ida York Abelman died in Sag Harbor, New York on 30 December 2002.
Examples of her work are in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois; Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, Maryland; Detroit Institute of the Arts in Detroit, Michigan; Greenville Museum of Art in Greenville, North Carolina; University of Kentucky Art Museum in Lexington, Kentucky; Allen R. Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville in Crestwood, Kentucky; Newark Art Museum iun Newark, New Jersey; University of Oregon Museum of Art in Portland, Oregon; Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; St. Louis Art Museum in St. Louis, Missouri; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, California; The University of Michigan Museum of Art in Ann Arbor, Michigan; Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota; and the Library of Congress in Washington, DC
* Note: this is the date given in her entry in ‘Who’s Who in American Art’ vol.3, 1940-41 (Washington, DC: The American Federation of Arts, 1940), however, other sources give her date of birth as 12 February 1908
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Bibliography
1. Adams, Clinton. American lithographers, 1900-1960: the artists and their printers. Santa Fe, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1983
2. America today: a book of 100 prints. New York, NY: Equinox Cooperative Press, 1936
3. Paths to the press: printmaking and American women artists 1910-1960. Edited by Elizabeth G. Seaton. Manhattan, Kansas: Mariana Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, 2006
4. The Federal Art Project: American prints from the 1930’s. Edited by Lauren Arnold Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1985 [Exhibition catalogue]
1. Adams, Clinton. American lithographers, 1900-1960: the artists and their printers. Santa Fe, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1983
2. America today: a book of 100 prints. New York, NY: Equinox Cooperative Press, 1936
3. Paths to the press: printmaking and American women artists 1910-1960. Edited by Elizabeth G. Seaton. Manhattan, Kansas: Mariana Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, 2006
4. The Federal Art Project: American prints from the 1930’s. Edited by Lauren Arnold Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1985 [Exhibition catalogue]
