Mildred Feinberg (June 1899 – June 1990) was an American artist known for her etchings and paintings.

Biography

Born in New York City, Mildred studied at

Parsons School of Design The Parsons School of Design is a private art and design college under The New School located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Founded in 1896 after a group of progressive artists broke away from established Manhattan art ...

, 1917, and graduated from the School of Fine and Applied Arts at the Pratt Institute of Fine Arts in 1920. Mildred and Minna had a design business, ''Twins Advertising Art Service, NYC,'' on Madison Avenue from 1923 to 1974. Art exhibitions with her sister took place in The Townhouse Gallery, Woodstock, NY, in 1952 and at the Charles Barzansky Galleries, NYC, in 1957. She participated in group exhibitions at the Ward Eggleston Galleries, 1953–55, Tokyo Municipal Art Museum, 1960,

Riverside Museum The Riverside Museum (replacing the preceding Glasgow Museum of Transport) is a museum in the Partick area of Glasgow, Scotland, housed in a building designed by Zaha Hadid, Zaha Hadid Architects, with its River Clyde frontage at the new Point ...

, NYC, 1960, Royal Academy Galleries, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1963,

Royal Society of British Artists The Royal Society of British Artists (RBA) is a British art body established in 1823 as the Society of British Artists, as an alternative to the Royal Academy. History The RBA commenced with twenty-seven members, and took until 1876 to reach fi ...

, Birmingham, England, 1964,

National Academy of Design The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Frederick Styles Agate, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, an ...

, 1963,

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, 1961–63. Her paintings were exhibited at

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, NYC, 1965–68, 72,

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, Florence, Italy, 1972, Salvator Rosa Public Garden, Naples, Italy, 1972. Her works are included in the permanent collections of the

Rose Art Museum The Rose Art Museum, founded in 1961, is a part of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, US. Named after benefactors Edward and Bertha Rose, it offers temporary exhibitions, and it displays and houses works of art from its permanent co ...

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, the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Norfolk, Virginia, and the Evansville, Indiana Museum of Arts and Sciences.

Awards

* Lillian Cotton Memorial prize ,

National Association of Women Artists The National Association of Women Artists, Inc. (NAWA) is a United States organization, founded in 1889 to gain recognition for professional women fine artists in an era when that field was strongly male-oriented. It sponsors exhibitions, awards ...

, 1965 * Medal of honor for painting by National Art Club, 1968 * Woman Art Award Honorable Mention, 1978, 79 * Ziuta and Joseph James Akston Foundation prize for painting,

Whitney Museum The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is a Modern art, modern and Contemporary art, contemporary American art museum located in the Meatpacking District, Manhattan, Meatpacking District and West Village neighbor ...

, 1979

References

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