About The Artist:
Louise Nevelson
Born Louise Berliawsky in Kiev, Russia in 1899, she moved as a small child to Rockland, Maine with her family. At age twenty she married Charles Nevelson and moved to New York. She later left her family to pursue her art, heading to Germany to become a student of Hans Hofmann. She also worked as an assistant to Diego Rivera. In the 1940’s, Nevelson began collecting wood objects of all types and putting them together in unusual and...
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About The Medium:
Screenprint
A stencil process employing a frame on which silk or synthetic fabric is stretched. Stencils are hand-drawn or hand-cut and placed on the stretched fabric and act as a block out when the ink passes through the screen by means of a squeegee onto the paper, the non-stencil areas create the image. Also known as silkscreen or serigraph.