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Painting My World - The Art of Dorothy Eisner (Hardcover)
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Dorothy Eisner (1906-1984) was an American painter whose career
spanned more than seven decades. She studied at the Art Students
League from 1925-29 with Boardman Robinson, Kenneth Hayes Miller
and Thomas Hart Benton. She worked constantly on her own track,
with occasional explorations of fields or 'schools' of art through
most of the twentieth century, in her studio in Greenwich Village,
in the mountains of North Carolina, the valleys and rivers of
Montana, and the coast of Maine. Her paintings reflect both her own
past and her passionate interest in all art. Dorothy Eisner was
born in 1906 and became dedicated to drawing and painting for life
at the outset of the 1920s. By the l930s, a period when women
artists found it difficult to achieve recognition, she exhibited
frequently and was an active participant in the New York art
community. Her close circle of friends included Walker Evans who
she painted in the forties, as he photographed her work in the
sixties.In 1937, she travelled to Coyoacan, Mexico, with a number
of American intellectuals on the anti-Stalinist left, to
participate in the American philosopher John Dewey's Commission of
Inquiry into the charges made against Trotsky in the Moscow Trials.
She painted two portraits of Trotsky as well as a painting of the
entire Commission - including Trotsky and the celebrated Mexican
muralist Diego Rivera. She wrote that she was never a 'social
realist,' but 'did still lifes and lifes not so still'. After the
War, she worked with Jack Tworkov and experimented with abstract
expressionism. She found her vision as an artist in the 1970s and
1980s with boldly expressed and brilliantly colourful works. This
book is a beautiful exploration of her life and work.
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