Gladys Goldstein, American,1918-2010 Modernist - Glow

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Gladys Goldstein (American, 1918-2010) Modernist/AbstractA charming period oil on canvas."Glow"Dated 19 64, Signed and Titled on BackOil on Canvas - housed in custom Belgian FrameImage: 9" x 11"Some small abrasions otherwise in good condition.Estate Stamp on back of canvasAlso included is the University of Maryland book "Capturing the Essence - The Art of Gladys Goldstein". (84 pages, filled with color plates and biographical material) This book was produced for the opening of the University of Maryland's Permanent Exhibiton of the Gladys Goldstein Collection of the University of Maryland.) Biography: Gladys Goldstein, born Gladys V. Hack, moved withher family to Baltimore before she was age two, was educated in art from the age of nine through high school at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and had her first art exhibition at age 12. Though she began training in Teacher Education at Johns Hopkins University, painter and MICA faculty member Henry Roben advised her to study art in New York. She attended the Art Students League t for a year, in addition to three ensuing summers, while her husband, Edward H. Goldstein, was acquiring his doctorate at Columbia University. The Goldsteins eventually moved to Baltimore w Gladys lives and works today.After the birth of their son, William N. Goldstein, in 1943, Goldstein did portrait painting and creative painting in her home studio until 1951 when she began studying with Hobson Pittman at Pennsylvania State University. Pittman convinced her to focus on creative painting, and the University gave her a studio for use during two summers. In 1954, the University purchased from Goldstein a painting entitled "White Church," which remains part of its permanent collection.Although her work is abstract, Goldstein's primary source of inspiration is nature. She creates the impression of light emanating from within her paintings and captures the essence, rather than the appearance, of the natural world. The subject matter and themes she depicts or that inspire her compositions range from cityscapes, landscapes, rivers, the western plains, dancing, storms, the sea, plants and the seasons. In an artistic career spanning six decades, Goldstein has worked with oils, acrylics, watercolor, drawing, collage, mixed media and cast/handmade paper. She frequently worked the paints over the canvas with a palette knife. Goldstein was also the first American artist to use the Mexican printmaking technique called mixographia to create and reproduce textured prints.Goldstein's manner of painting has been described as being, "like looking through layers of filmy colored veils with one color moving into the next." (Quoted in Robert G. Breen "Perspective in Space," Baltimore Sun, n. d.) The artist spoke about the "horizontal perspective" she achieves using layers, spatial relationships and light effects in her work: "This [horizontal perspective] does not violate the picture plane but simply creates an illusion of movement by virtue of the depth created horizontally in flat layers; each layer retaining its own identity, yet uniting itself with the whole." (Breen)In 1957 on the occasion of an exhibition of Goldstein's work at his New York gallery, Albert Duveen, also an art critic, wrote, "These are the expressions of a keen observer, a highly organized and skillful artist, whose knowledge of color relationship, form and mass, aided by a sensitive painting texture, guides her unerringly in the creation of meaningful abstractions. She is fully aware of the pitfalls of a sentimental, romantic approach. Her paintings have a masculine solidity, rare indeed for such a sensitive personality." (cited in Baltimore Museum of Art vertical file) Gladys Goldstein's artistic contemporary and fellow abstract artist, Keith Martin, also was a profound influence on her work, as was Henry Roben and Hobson Pittman.The University of Maryland University College hung an exhibition in 2004, Capturing the Essence: The Art of Gladys Gold... read more

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