Naomi Feinberg
Sculptor Naomi Feinberg didn’t begin to explore art as a career until she was in her 30s, and in a field dominated by men, she made a name for herself among her peers and in the art world at large. Feinberg primarily worked with stone, drawing on pre-Columbian, African and Native American influences as well as Cubism.
Born Naomi Levine in New York, she came of age during the Great Depression. When she was 17, she married writer, painter and photographer Sidney Feinberg — who himself became an award-winning book designer. Her relationship with her husband had a profound impact on Feinberg's love of visual art.
Working with Sidney in his graphic arts studio, Naomi constantly engaged with a range of art forms — there was needlework and fashion as well as ceramic sculpture before she settled into working primarily with stone. In the early 1940s, Feinberg took classes in sculpture at several institutions, including the New School, the Museum of Modern Art and the School of Visual Arts. She studied alongside notable artists José de Creeft and Lorrie Goule and later, shared a group studio space with Constructivist painter Dorothy Dehner.
Feinberg continued to make abstract sculptures — as well as strikingly expressive sculptures that represented the human form — in limestone, marble and more throughout the 1980s and retired sometime during that decade. Her work is held in many private collections as well as the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and other institutions.
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1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Naomi Feinberg
Granite
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Naomi Feinberg
Marble
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Naomi Feinberg
Marble
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Naomi Feinberg
Granite
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Naomi Feinberg
Marble
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Naomi Feinberg
Marble
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Naomi Feinberg
Marble, Bronze
15th Century and Earlier Italian Antique Naomi Feinberg
Marble, Iron
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Naomi Feinberg
Limestone
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Naomi Feinberg
Murano Glass
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Naomi Feinberg
Ceramic
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Naomi Feinberg
Lucite
1970s Vintage Naomi Feinberg
Onyx
1970s Vintage Naomi Feinberg
Plaster
20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Naomi Feinberg
Glass
1970s Vintage Naomi Feinberg
Steel
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Naomi Feinberg
Acrylic
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Naomi Feinberg
Brass
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Naomi Feinberg
Limestone
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Naomi Feinberg
Marble
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Naomi Feinberg
Marble
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Naomi Feinberg
Marble
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Naomi Feinberg
Serpentine
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Naomi Feinberg
Granite
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Naomi Feinberg
Limestone
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Naomi Feinberg
Marble
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Naomi Feinberg
Alabaster, Brass
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Naomi Feinberg
Marble, Brass
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Naomi Feinberg
Marble
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Naomi Feinberg
Marble