Sylvia Plimack Mangold

Sylvia Plimack Mangold studied at Yale University, Yale School of Art and Cooper Union. The recorded working language is English. Residence is recorded at Washingtonville. Work by Sylvia Plimack Mangold is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

• Name — Sylvia Mangold • Birth Name — Sylvia Plimack • Born — 1938 • Birthplace — New York City, US • Occupation — Painter • Spouse — Robert Mangold • Children — James Mangold Andrew Mangold • Parents — Ethel and Maurice Plimack

Sylvia Plimack was born in New York City to a family of Jewish background. She is the daughter of Ethel (Rein), an office administrator, and Maurice Plimack, an accountant and businessman. She grew up in Queens, and attended the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan, after high school she was accepted into the program at Cooper Union in 1956. She continued her studies at Yale University and graduated with a B.F.A. in 1961. In the same year she married Yale classmate and fellow painter Robert Mangold. She is the mother of film director/screenwriter James Mangold and musician Andrew Mangold. Mangold's work was included in the 1971 exhibition Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists held at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and the 2022 exhibition 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone also at the Aldrich. In the 1980s she introduced the images of the landscape to the canvas affixed by the image of masking tape. Eventually, the landscape image filled the entire canvas and focused on individual trees, their branches cropped so as to create the spaces between the limbs and branches of the trees. All the landscape paintings are done from observation. Even as the subject matter of Plimack Mangold's paintings has shifted, her work has always been based in perceptual realism, inviting viewers to observe from up close and mirroring her own process of observation. Mangold received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1975. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Neuberger Museum of Art at the State University of New York at Purchase, and the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (formerly the Albright-Knox Art Gallery). Mangold received the 2007 Cooper Union President's Citation Award and was inducted into The Cooper Union Hall of Fame in 2009.

• Art Institute of Chicago • Brooklyn Museum, New York • Buffalo AKG Art Museum • Indianapolis Museum of Art • Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York • Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • The Museum of Modern Art, New York • Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO • Smithsonian American Art Museum • Walker Art Center, Minneapolis • Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York • Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven