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Esphyr Slobodkina

Honoring the Life and Art of Esphyr Slobodkina

Esphyr Slobodkina was a pioneer of American abstract art. Her participation in the avant-garde activities and exhibitions of the 1930s & 40s helped achieve recognition for abstract art in the United States.

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The Working Drawing


Exhibits: Decades: Art Types:


Untitled (Line Transfer Drawing)

Working Drawing
Pencil on tissue paper

Composition With Pierced Shapes No.5

Working Drawing
Pencil on paper

Dialogue Of Diagrams (Working Sketch)

Working Drawing
Pencil on tissue paper

Mechaniical Moths Immobilized

Working Drawing
Ink on paper

Untitled (Study)

Working Drawing
Pencil on tissue paper

Untitled (Sketches On An Envelope)

Working Drawing
Pencil on envelope

Untitled (Working Drawing)

Working Drawing
Pencil on paper

Day And Night (Sketch)

Working Drawing
Pencil on tissue paper

Yellow Abstraction (Working Drawing)

Working Drawing
Pencil on tissue paper

Untitled (Bookmark Design)

Working Drawing
Mixed media on paper

Untitled (Working Drawing With Mailing Label)

Working Drawing
Pencil on tissue paper

Untitled (Oval Abstraction)

Working Drawing
Pencil on tissue paper

Untitled (Whitney)

Working Drawing
Pencil on paper

Untitled

Working Drawing
Black and red pencil on paper

Design For Embroidery
1926
Working Drawing
Colored pencils on tracing paper, harbin

Hindu Perfume
1928
Working Drawing
Pencil on paper

Untitled (Working Drawing)
1930s
Working Drawing
Colored pencil on illustration board

Mural For A Housing Project-Social Room (Scale And Color Study)
1936
Working Drawing
Pencil and gouache paper (nr)

Swan Lake (Original Study)
1940s
Working Drawing
Gouache on paperboard

The Witching Hour (2 Studies)
1949
Working Drawing
Pencil on tissue paper

Deus Ex Machina (Study)
1960
Working Drawing
Pencil on tracing paper taped on graph paper

Midnight Of The Lyre (Sketch)
1961
Working Drawing
Pencil on paper

Midnight Of The Lyre
1961
Working Drawing
Pencil on tissue paper

Japanese Abstraction (Working Drawing)
1962
Working Drawing
Pencil on paper
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