Sylvia Plimack Mangold (born 1938) is an American

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, and pastelist. She is known for her representational depictions of interiors and

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Life and career

Sylvia Plimack was born in

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to a family of

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background. She is the daughter of Ethel (Rein), an office administrator, and Maurice Plimack, an accountant and businessman. She grew up in

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, and attended the High School of Music and Art in

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, after high school she was accepted into the program at

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in 1956. She continued her studies at

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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

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James Mangold James Allen Mangold (born December 16, 1963) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Noted for his versatility in tackling a range of genres, Mangold made his debut as a film director with ''Heavy (film), Heavy'' (1995), and gai ...

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

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in 1975. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the

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, the Neuberger Museum of Art at the

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, and the

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(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.

Selected collections

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* Brooklyn Museum, New York * Buffalo AKG Art Museum * Indianapolis Museum of Art * Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland *

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, New York * Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX * Museum of Fine Arts, Boston *

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* The Museum of Modern Art, New York * Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO *

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* Walker Art Center, Minneapolis * Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford * Whitney Museum of American Art, New York * Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven

Selected bibliography

* ''Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Floors and Rules, 1967–76''. Published by Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York, 2016 * ''Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Landscape and Trees'', ex. cat. West Palm Beach, Florida: Norton Museum of Art, 2012 * ''Sylvia Plimack Mangold''. Published by Alexander and Bonin, New York, 2012 * ''Natural Sympathies: Sylvia Plimack Mangold and Lovis Corinth Works on Paper''. Published by Alexander and Bonin, New York, 2009 * ''The Paintings of Sylvia Plimack Mangold''. Co-published by Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo and Hudson Hills Press, New York, 1994 * ''Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Works on Paper 1968-1991''. Co-published by Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University and University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 1992 * ''Sylvia Plimack Mangold Paintings 1987-1989''. Published by Brooke Alexander, New York, 1989 * ''Sylvia Plimack Mangold Paintings 1965-1982''. Published by Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin, 1982 * ''Inches and Field''. Published by Lapp Princess Press Ltd., New York, 1978

References

Sources

Biography, National Museum of Women in the Arts
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External links

''Schunnemunk Mountain'', Dallas Museum of Art
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mangold, Sylvia Plimack 1938 births Living people Cooper Union alumni Yale School of Art alumni American modern painters Jewish American artists The High School of Music & Art alumni Artists from New York City 20th-century American women artists Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters