{"id":501,"date":"2023-04-10T19:02:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T19:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrainianartists.org\/?p=501"},"modified":"2023-04-10T19:03:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T19:03:42","slug":"501","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukrainianartists.org\/index.php\/2023\/04\/10\/501\/","title":{"rendered":"Janet Sobel: Wartime"},"content":{"rendered":"

27<\/strong> April \u2013 2 September 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Ukrainian Museum<\/strong>
\n222 East 6th St NY NY 10003<\/strong><\/p>\n

11.30 AM \u2013 5.00 PM
\nClosed Monday \u2013 Tuesday
\n212 228 0110 \u2013 info@ukrainianmuseum.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Janet Sobel is a rediscovered Ukrainian American artist who influenced the New York art world in the 1930s and 1940s, shortly after she began painting.<\/p>\n

Sobel (1893\u20131968)\u202fwas born Jennie Olechovsky in what is now Dnipro, Ukraine. She moved to Brooklyn with her mother and siblings in 1908, shortly after her father\u2019s death. At 16, she married Max Sobel, with whom she had five children.<\/p>\n

Sobel took up painting at the age of 44, in 1937. Her son Sol, an art student at the time, recognized his mother\u2019s talent and promoted her work. Sobel\u2019s early work often incorporated images and experiences from her Ukrainian childhood: the abundant floral motifs of Ukrainian folk art, traditional Jewish families, soldiers with cannons and imperial armies. Her main goal was visual intensity, which she attained with impressive regularity.<\/p>\n

The art collector Peggy Guggenheim included Sobel\u2019s work in a 1945 group show called The Women<\/em> at her Manhattan gallery Art of This Century; the following year, Sobel had a solo show at the gallery.<\/p>\n

Janet Sobel: Wartime<\/em> is the first museum exhibition focusing on Sobel\u2019s early work. Over forty-five\u202fdrawings, created in the decade after she began painting in 1937, highlight her rise to much-talked-about and prominent artist. This important period in her artistic career positioned her to be part of the ground-breaking Ninth Street Art Exhibition<\/em> (1951), which marked the formal debut of Abstract Expressionism, the first American art movement with international influence. Sobel was one of only three women included in the show.<\/p>\n

But her fame did not last long. She was not easily categorized by the art world, and the media often referred to her as a mother and housewife first, then as an artist. While she initially received attention for being an outsider artist (self-taught), she was just as quickly forgotten for the same reason.<\/p>\n

Several recent press articles refer to Sobel pioneering the drip-painting technique made famous by Jackson Pollock. Her best-known work, Milky Way<\/em> (1945), at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, was made a year before Pollock\u2019s first drip painting, Free Form<\/em>, which is also at MoMA.<\/p>\n

Sobel is said to have completed more than 1,000 works. This exhibition is organized from the private collection of\u202f Gary Snyder.<\/p>\n

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