Vintage American Philadelphia Female Modernist Artist African American Theme Stella Drabkin. Monotype on Gesso; dated 1960; pencil-signed and date LR; unique impression entitled "Maternity"; depicts African American woman holding her baby; 24 x 18", 30 x 23 1/2" framed.
A talented painter and mosaicist who innovated new methods of printmaking, Stella Drabkin believed the mark of an artist was the ability to work in any medium. Drabkin worked as a commercial artist before studying at the Philadelphia Graphic Sketch Club, where she created a series of prints in the 1930s called Old Philadelphia. She was known for her experiments with multitype, a variation on monotype printing with layers of texture and color. She created biblical mosaics for the Philadelphia Free Library and played with the words, poetry, and pictures. Drabkin won first prize in the Gimbel Competition in 1933 and the New Jersey State Museum Purchase Prize in 1967. In 1972, the Art Alliance established the Stella Drabkin Memorial Award Fund in her honor.

30 x 23.5 in

9 lb