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Edna (Hibel) Plotkin

Edna (Hibel) Plotkin (1917 - 2015) was active/lived in Massachusetts, Florida.  Edna Plotkin is known for Mother and child figure painting, lithographs, ink and crayon drawing.

Edna Hibel, a painter of sentimental pictures of children, has had a more than 60-year career as painter and lithographer and promoter of peace through exhibitions of her artwork.

She was born in 1917 in Boston, Massachusetts. Her parents were Abraham and Lena Hibel, and she was raised in the Boston area and educated at Brookline High School where she met her future husband, Theodore Plotkin.

She began to paint when she was nine years old and learned watercolor during summers at the shore where her family vacationed in Maine and Hull, Massachusetts.

Hibel studied at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, from 1935-39, receiving a Sturtevant Traveling Fellowship to Mexico. In Boston, in 1966, she began lithography, continuing in 1970 in Zurich, where she still works every year. She has created lithographic works with up to 32 stones (or colors) on paper, silk, wood veneer and porcelain. The latter pieces are called lithographs on porcelain and result from a complic   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 10158 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Edna (Hibel) Plotkin


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art MediaArt Style
  • Abstraction and Realism; Semi Abstract
Art Subject
  • Botanics, Plant Life
  • Children, Child Figure, Genre, Portrait
  • Female Face and Figure
  • Feminist Themes, Women's Equality, Feminism
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Hand-Crafted Objects
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Mother and Child
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Florida
  • Mexico and/or Central America
  • Monterey, Carmel California
  • Rockport, Massachusetts
  • Switzerland
Art School
  • School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Student
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Figure Specialty
  • Genre Specialty
  • Postage Stamp Designer
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
  • Vose Galleries, Boston
Exhibition of Art Association
  • American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor-
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago

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