Janet Sobel: 1940s, at the Heart of the New Vanguard
Cecilia Brunson Projects is excited to present the gallery’s first exhibition by the Ukrainian-born, New York-based painter Janet Sobel (1893-1968).
One of the unsung pioneers of Abstract Expressionism, she enjoyed a short-lived but meteoric career beginning in 1943, when leading New York dealers, collectors and artists took up her work, and culminating in a solo show at Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of This Century gallery in 1946. Nevertheless, she remains largely absent from the narratives of American modernism.
As Cecilia Brunson Projects endeavours to showcase artists who have been historically overlooked, we are pleased to share her work at this pivotal moment of re-evaluation, preceding the artist’s 2024 retrospective at the Menil Collection, Houston.