Edna Hibel
Untitled, Two people in the field
c.1970

Name: Untitled, Two people in the field
Brand: Edna Hibel
Price: 6000 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

This artwork "Untitled, Two People in the Field" c.1970, is an oil painting on canvas by American artist Edna Hibel, 1917-2014. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The canvas size is 30 x 40 inches. It is in good condition, It has been recently revarnished. About the artist:Edna Hibel, a painter of sentimental pictures of children, has had a more than 60-year career as painter and lithographer and promoter of peace through exhibitions of her artwork. She was born in 1917 in Boston, Massachusetts. Her parents were Abraham and Lena Hibel, and she was raised in the Boston area and educated at Brookline High School where she met her future husband, Theodore Plotkin. She began to paint when she was nine years old and learned watercolor during summers at the shore where her family vacationed in Maine and Hull, Massachusetts. Hibel studied at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, from 1935-39, receiving a Sturtevant Traveling Fellowship to Mexico. In Boston, in 1966, she began lithography, continuing in 1970 in Zurich, where she still works every year. She has created lithographic works with up to 32 stones (or colors) on paper, silk, wood veneer and porcelain. The latter pieces are called lithographs on porcelain and result from a complicated process, that she keeps a secret, whereby she transfers stone lithographic color separations onto Bavarian hard paste porcelain. Hibel has created the "Arte Ovale" series and various plaques with this technique. She organized the Edna Hibel Museum of Art, in Jupiter, Florida, to display and promote her work and also created a United Nations stamp, "Mother Earth." In 1995, she was commissioned by the Foundation of the U.S. National Archives to commemorate the 75th anniversary of women receiving the universal right to vote. At the ceremony, Ms. Lucy Baines Johnson referred to Hibel as the "Heart and Conscience of America." In November, 2001, the World Cultural Council based in Mexico City gave her the Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts. Hibel's work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in more than 20 countries including Russia, Brazil, China, Costa Rica, and the United States, and under the royal patronage of Count and Countess Bernadotte of Germany, Count Thor Bonde of Sweden, Prince and the late Princess Rainier of Monaco and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of England. Pope John Paul II gave her a medal of honor as did the late Belgian King Baudouin. She also received honorary Doctoral degrees including from Eureka College, and Northwood University of Florida, Michigan and Texas. She also has received many humanitarian honors for her charitable efforts for children's and medical charities. Her exhibitions "Golden Bridge" and " Peace Through Wisdom" were efforts to promote peace and cultural understanding between China, the United States, Yugoslavia and Russia, and a television documentary titled "Hibel's Russian Palette" was based on her trips and art shows in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg. In 2001, Edna received a Lifetime Achievement Award from "Women in the Visual Arts," an organization of artists in the South Florida area. Works in Permanent Collections: Harvard University Boston University Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Springfield Museum of Arts, Massachusetts University of New Hampshire Fleischmann Collection, Cincinnati Detroit Art Institute Milwaukee Art Museum Phoenix Art Museum La Jolla Museum, California Lowe Gallery, University of Miami, Florida Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts, Georgia WarrenHall Coutts, Ill, Memorial Museum of Art, El Dorado, Kansas Palais des Nations,Geneva, Switzerland United Nations Headquarters, New York City Norton Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, California Russian Academy of Art, St. Petersburg, Russia Hibel Museum of Art, Lake Worth, Florida One Artist Exhibitions: Shacknow Museum of Fine Arts, Plantation, Florida, 2000 Cornell Museum of Art and History, Delray Beach, Florida, 1999 (and 1993) Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Washington, D.C., 1999 The Museum of Printing History, Houston, Texas, 1999 (and 1998) Mitsukoshi Fine Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 1995 (and 1994) Lyme Academy of Fine Art, Old Lyme, Connecticut, 1994 Grenchen Art Museum, and Galerie BrechbUhl, Grenchen, Switzerland, 1992 Soviet Union Academy of Art, and Exhibition Hall of the Russian Union of Artists, Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Russia, U.S.S.R., 1990 Northern Indiana Arts Association Gallery, Munste~ Indiana, 1990 Galerie Vindobona, Bad Kissingen,West Germany, 1988 The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., 1989 St. Peter An Der Sper~ Wiener Neustadt, and Galerie Phdnix, Ternitz, Austria, 1989 National Museum of Costa Rica, San Jos& Costa Rica, 1988 The Mall Galleries, London, England, 1981 Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, Tennessee, 1996 Dubrovnik Museum, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Yugoslavia, 1988 Whiting and Woolley Galleries, Eastern Shore Art Association, Fairhope, Alabama, 1987 China National Art Gallery, Beiling, and Sichuan Art Institute, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, 1986 Gallerie H~rhamme~ Helsinki, Finland, 1986 Austrian Cultural Cente~ Palais Palify, and Galerie 10, Vienna, Austia, 1985 Museum Maihugen, Lilehamme~ Norway, 1984 Castle Bosj~kloste~ Hdtir, Sweden, 1984 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1983 Castle Borluut, Ghent, Belgium, 1982 Castle Mainau, Lake Constance, Germany, 1980 Galerie Monaco Fine Arts, Monte Carlo, Monaco, 1979 National Museum of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1976 Guggenheim Gallery, London, England, 1975 (and 1971) Abilene Fine Arts Museum, Abilene, Texas, 1975 Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina, 1974 Flint Institute of Art, Flint Michigan, 1973 Emery Gallery, Edgecliff College, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1972 Hammer Galleries, New York City, 1971 Vase Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, 1954 (and 1941 and 1942) Public Group Shows Chicago Art Institute Pennsylvania Academy of Art Pittsfield Musuem, Massachusetts American Federation of Art Philadelphia Watercolor Society Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Marblehead Art Association, Massachusetts Gallery, Phillips Andover Academy, Andover Massachusetts Assemby Building, United Nations Headquarters, New York City Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Miami Beach Library Art Gallery Boston Art Festival (Founder) Massachusetts School of Art Boston Institute of Modern Art

Creator:

Edna Hibel (1917 - 2014, American)

Creation Year:

c.1970

Dimensions:

Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 40 in (101.6 cm)Depth: 0.75 in (1.91 cm)

Medium:

Oil

Movement & Style:

American Impressionist

Period:

Late 20th Century