ALL: Master Collection List
Nationality
American
Artist Dates
b. 1934
Preview
Date of Work
1991
Medium
Lithograph
Edition #
5 of 7
Signature
Lower right
Collection/Provenance
Art & Design Study Collection
Status
Stored: FF_002_E
Location
UND Art Collections Repository
Artist Bio
Sigmund Abeles was born in 1934 in New York and raised in South Carolina. His formal art education began in high school when he mentored under Truman Moore Sr., a wood sculptor. Abeles later received his BA in Fine Arts from the University of South Carolina and his MFA from Columbia University. He also studied at the Pratt Institute in New York and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Shortly after graduating, Abeles was drafted into the army and posted to Heidelberg, Germany where he worked on illustrating maps and charts for the US Army for two years until his discharge. Upon his return to the US, Abeles briefly instructed adult art classes before securing a position at the Swain School of Art Design where he taught for three years. He later became a resident artist at Wellesley College for several years before being awarded a sabbatical grant by the National Endowment for Arts, then the National Council of Arts and Humanities.
Abeles is currently Professor Emeritus for the University of New Hampshire after 27 years of teaching and he works full-time in his New York studio.
Artist Website: https://www.sigmundabeles.net
Additional Information
Sketch of a woman leaning over the top of a chair.
Featured in the student-curated exhibition, #InYourFace: Reflections on Contemporary Portraiture, 2019
Condition
Excellent
Rights
Images are provided for educational purposes only and may not be reproduced for commercial use. Images may be protected by artist copyright. A credit line is required to be used for any public non-commercial educational purpose. The credit line must include, “Image courtesy of the University of North Dakota.”