Janet Abramowicz
Janet Abramowicz (1930 – 2020) was an American painter and printmaker. Janet Abramowicz was born in 1930, Abramowicz studied at Columbia University and the Art Students League of New York. She also studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna where she was taught by the painter Giorgio Morandi.
Janet Abramowicz
- Name
- Janet Abramowicz
- Died
- 2020
- Education
- Columbia University, Art Students League of New York, Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna
- Born
- 1930
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- printmaker · painter
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
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Janet Abramowicz (1930 – 2020) was an American painter and printmaker. Janet Abramowicz was born in 1930, Abramowicz studied at Columbia University and the Art Students League of New York. She also studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna where she was taught by the painter Giorgio Morandi.
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Janet Abramowicz (1930–2020) was an American painter and printmaker.
Works by the painter are held at Boston Public Library, Fogg Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. Janet Abramowicz received Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Her home was New York City. She spent time in Japan and Italy. Abramowicz lectured on art at Harvard University from 1971 to 1991. In 1975 and 1976 she held residencies at MacDowell. In 1991 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2004 Yale University Press published her book Giorgio Morandi: The Art of Silence. Abramowicz died in 2020. Her work is in the collection of the British Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her papers are in the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.
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• Name — Janet Abramowicz • Died — 2020 • Education — Columbia University, Art Students League of New York, Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna • Website — janetabramowicz.com/
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Janet Abramowicz is recorded as having received Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Janet Abramowicz born.
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Janet Abramowicz died.
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- 1.Routledge. North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century. 2013. 9781135638894.
- 2.Janet Abramowicz - Artist. MacDowell.
- 3.Janet Abramowicz. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
- 4.Danieli, Eyal. Giorgio Morandi: The Art of Silence. The Brooklyn Rail. 5 March 2006.
- 5.Abramowicz, Janet. Giorgio Morandi: the art of silence. Yale University Press. 2004. 9780300100365.
- 6.Janet Abramowicz Abstract, geometrical design. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- 7.Janet Abramowicz. British Museum.
- 8.Smithsonian Institution. Janet Abramowicz. Collections Search Center.
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