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Karel Appel
Seymour Boardman
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Jacob Semiatin
Alexander Calder
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Laura Marquez
Malcolm Myers
Jacques Nestle
June Groff
John Kenneth Alexander
Helen Gerardia
Paul Keene
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CURRENT REPRESENTED ESTATES
F R A N C E S K O R N B L U T H E S T A T E
Frances Kornbluth was born in New York City on July 26, 1920. As a child, Kornbluth developed a passion for the piano. She graduated from Brooklyn College in 1940 with a degree in music.​ In 1947, Kornbluth enrolled in an art workshop on Long Island. In 1955, she enrolled in the Brooklyn Museum School, where she studied with William Kienbusch and Reuben Tam. During this time, Kornbluth painted in and out of the studio, including the Freeport marshes and Jones Beach. Reuben Tam encouraged Kornbluth to exhibit her work at the Brooklyn Museum and the City Center. He also introduced her to Maine’s Monhegan Island in 1957. She would later credit Tam with defining herself as an artist. Kornbluth also studied with Robert Richenburg at the Pratt Institute, where she received a master’s degree in 1962. In 1969, Kornbluth and her family moved from Merrick, NY to North Grosvenordale, Connecticut, where she would maintain a winter studio for the rest of her life.
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For 57 years, Kornbluth spent her summers on Monhegan Island, renting in different locations until 1974 when she purchased a cottage in Lobster Cove, establishing a permanent summer studio. From 1958 to 2013 she received over 30 solo exhibitions and innumerable group exhibitions.
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J U D I T H L I N D B L O O M E S T A T E
Judith Lindbloom was born in Detroit in 1933. She spent one semester at the University of Michigan before returning to Detroit and continuing her schooling at Wayne University. In the summer of 1953, she moved to New York City. Through her partner Gloria Granger, Lindbloom met artists who became her peers such as Joan Mitchell, Willem de Kooning, John Chamberlain and Franz Kline. Lindbloom immersed herself in the social world of artists that inhabited the art scene of 1950s New York, frequenting the Cedar Tavern and the Five Spot. She was also well-known in the jazz scene. Gil Evans and Sonny Rollins were admirers of her work. Lindbloom also became close to saxophonist Steve Lacy. The escalation of her recreational drug consumption, the death of Granger and ensuing depression led to a hiatus in her career.
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Lindbloom's brother had been storing some of her work since the end of 1964. Viewing the work once again in 1980 re-awakened her artistic impulse and a second period of artistic creativity. It was around this time that she quit drinking. She also addressed what had been, for her, a disinclination towards the art marketplace. To this end, Lindbloom sublet an apartment in New York and methodically visited a long list of galleries.
Lindbloom began to participate in group shows in San Francisco. She continued to reconnect with friends and musicians she had known in the early days of New York. In 2000, she had her first solo show at the Carrie Haddad Gallery. She was commissioned to be the cover artist for many Roaratorio record label releases by such musicians as Steve Lacy, Pauline Oliveros and Joe McPhee.
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M A L C O L M M Y E R S E S T A T E
Malcolm H. Myers was born in 1917, in the Chillicothe/Lucerne, Missouri area. The family moved to west Texas during the depression. The family eventually moved to Kansas in the mid-1930s. Meyers attended Wichita State University, graduating in 1940. He then enrolled and received a full scholarship at the University of Iowa at Iowa City the next year, earning his MA in Watercolor.
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Myers joined the US Merchant Marine to support the WW II effort. While in New York, he frequented many Blues and Jazz clubs and saw many greats like Dizzy Gillespie, Mile Davis and Billy Holiday. Blues and Jazz would go on to influence his work greatly. Myers attended the Art Students League in NY. He then moved to Iowa, where he worked under Argentinean Print Master Mauricio Lasansky.
In 1948, H. Harvard Arnason came to Iowa City, recruiting people to teach in the Department of Art at the University of Minnesota. Myers was accepted and subsequently started the printmaking department. Over the next few years, he was instrumental in organizing the B.F.A. program, and eventually the Arts Graduate Program.
In 1950, Myers received a Guggenheim Fellowship and spent almost two years in Paris, working in the iconic printmaking studio, Atelier 17. It was here that he met Joan Miró, Enrique Zanartu and other artists involved in the art of printmaking. Myers was awarded a second Guggenheim Fellowship in 1954 and spent the year working in Mexico City, Mexico, where he met Diego Rivera. Myers renewed his friendship painter Rufino Tamayo, whom he had met in Paris at Jacques Desjobert & Sons, a famous lithography workshop.
The 1980s were a decade of travel, including stints in Arizona and New York City. He also retired (becoming Professor Emeritus) and continued teaching, conducting two or more classes each semester at the University of Minnesota, until his death in 2002.
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