Judith Rothschild: Points of Light
Knoedler & Company, New York
March 8 – April 29, 2006
KNOEDLER & COMPANY
19 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021
www.knoedlergallery.com
Knoedler & Company, New York
March 8 – April 29, 2006
Knoedler & Company presents an exhibition of the art of Judith Rothschild (1921-1993). Points of Light, which takes its name from one of the paintings in the exhibition, focuses on Judith Rothschild’s landscape-inspired paintings and reliefs from 1956 through 1984, highlighting the artist’s work from the late 1950s and 1960s.
Born in New York City in 1921, Judith Rothschild graduated from Wellesley College in 1943 and went on to study painting with various artists, including Hans Hofmann, who had a formative influence on her. Although Judith Rothschild’s earliest work was entirely non-objective, by the mid-1950s, along with many American abstract painters both in New York and in the West, she began to reincorporate figurative imagery into her abstractions, most apparently in her landscape-related paintings. In works such as Nauset Marsh (1964), the artist uses non-local color and hazily defined forms to suggest a natural settings without actually resorting to representation. By the 1970s the artist had begun to create reliefs that included both traditional painting and collaged elements.
Judith Rothschild was never allied with one particular stylistic school, and the main influences on her work were artists such as Calder, Léger, Masson, Matisse, Miró, and Mondrian, rather than the Abstract Expressionists and Color Field painters. Her work has been the subject of several museum exhibitions since her death in 1993, including important retrospectives at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 1998 and at The State Russian Museum (Ludwig Museum at the Marble Palace), St. Petersburg in 2002.
Judith Rothschild: Points of Light is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with an essay by Justin Spring.
KNOEDLER & COMPANY
19 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021
www.knoedlergallery.com
