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American
(1926–2018)
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1960
Oil on canvas
49 x 38.375 x 1.5 in.
Gift of the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation
1996.32
Although not as well known today as her contemporaries Helen Frankenthaler and Joan Mitchell, Sonia Gechtoff holds the distinction of being one of the few women abstract expressionists to attain national prominence on a par with her male colleagues. In 1954 she participated in the Guggenheim Museum’s Younger American Painters, a roundup of emerging talent that included Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. A few years later, in a Time magazine review of the 1958 Brussels World Fair, her painting Love at High Noon was the only artwork reproduced. By then she had been given a retrospective at the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco—the first major female abstract expressionist on either coast to have a solo museum exhibition. Gechtoff attributed her success to a lack of chauvinism in the West: “I experienced no discrimination in San Francisco . . . [It] was nothing like New York in terms of women painters. There were only a few of us, but we were always treated equally.”
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