SET of SIX EDNA HIBEL KNOWLES MOTHERS DAY PLATES 1986-1991 Limited Edition

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Six plates. Knowles Limited editions from 1986 to 1991. Great way to start or to add to your Mother day collection. Excellent condition. You are bidding for the whole set of 6 plates! Edna Hibel b.1917 Colorist, painter, stone lithographer, serigrapher, etcher, sculptress, and filmmaker Born in MA, in 1917, the internationally renowned artist Edna Hibel , has been painting for over seventy years. Hibel’s talent was developed under the direction of noted portraitist Gregory Michaels. Edna then studied with the renowned Russian and German masters, Alexander Yakovlev and Karl Zerbe, at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts. Completing her training at the Museum School in 1939, Hibel was awarded the Ruth B. Sturtevant Traveling Fellowship for study in Mexico. In 1940, the Boston Museum of fine Arts purchase one of her painting for its permanent collection, making Edna the youngest artist at the time so honored by a major American museum. Hibel later returned to the Boston Museum School for graduate study in the art and techniques of the Renaissance, and to absorb the discipline of the masters. Hibel uses many media, including fresco, on a wide variety of surfaces such as canvas, wood, silk, shells, plaster, Japanese rice paper, and cameo paper, often working with oil glazes and gold leaf. In terms of subject matter, Hibel ’s thousands read more