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Pat Steir

Pat Steir (Born 1938/40) is active/lives in New York, New Jersey / Holland.  Pat Steir is known for Abstract landscape, words, botanic painting.

Painter, printmaker Pat Steir is a painter and draftsman of words, letters, signs and symbolic marks, drips and spills applied to paper and canvas.

Steir, who now lives in New York City and Amsterdam, was born Iris Patricia Sukoneck in 1940 in Newark, New Jersey, growing up in a Jersey suburb of Philadelphia. Immersed in a study of the arts and philosophy as a girl, Steir continued her interests at Boston University and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, studying lithography and etching from 1956 to 1962. She received her B.F.A. degree from Pratt in 1961.

After completion of her studies, during which she had worked with artists Richard Lindner and Philip Guston, Steir was employed by Harper and Row Publishers in New York City as an art director and book designer from 1966 to 1970. While she continued to paint, it would seem that her attraction to words was a reflection of inborn thinking that directed her into the world of books, and by being in that world, reinforced what she   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2880 characters.]  Artist bio

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