Linda Lindeberg (1915-1973) was an

abstract expressionist Abstract expressionism in the United States emerged as a distinct art movement in the aftermath of World War II and gained mainstream acceptance in the 1950s, a shift from the American social realism of the 1930s influenced by the Great Depressi ...

painter. She was born in 1915 and died from cancer in 1973. In her adult life Lindeberg lived in New York with her husband

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who was also an artist. Lindeberg studied at Hoffman School in New York under

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. Lindeberg's work has been described as "dizzy and bright" by

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, in the

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. The medium she employed in her art includes ink, pencil, and oil paint on paper. Lindeberg's art was exhibited in the

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(MoMA), the

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, the

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, the Houston Art Museum, and the Berkley Art Museum. One of her most famous pieces is "Hanging Man" which is ink on paper and was displayed at MoMA.

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1915 births 1973 deaths American abstract artists Abstract expressionist artists Artists from New York City 20th-century American women painters 20th-century American painters {{US-painter-stub